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What really matters /
Home resonates in this collection. Heart longs for the Prince Edward Island birthplace left behind, memory building like early frost on fresh laundry. But there is another sense of home for this poet of the Irish diaspora, deep down in legacies of poetry and family lore, bred-in-the-bone, read in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Dark Horses
- PART I: TRANSMIGRATION
- Bloodlines
- Cormorants
- Exile
- Lament for My Family, Lost at Sea
- On Unquity Road
- South Boston Pier (1896)
- Cattle Crossing at Argyle Shore
- Stopping in Rock Barra
- Local Matters
- The National Dream
- A Fiddler's Share
- War Stories
- Apologia
- The Death of Milton Acorn
- Whoso Pulleth Out This Sword
- Fox Tongs
- The Craft of Poetry
- The Lure
- Thanksgiving
- Transmigration
- Auguries
- The Field
- Some Days, Paradise
- A Poem Leaves No More Mark
- After AkhmatovaValediction
- PART II: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
- What Really Matters
- Metamorphoses
- Safety Points
- Redemption
- The Miracle
- Grappelli
- Paganini
- Epithalamia
- 1 They Became Mermaids
- 2 A Bicycle Built for Two
- 3 The Fixed Link
- The Origin of Species
- Reading Mandelstam
- Russian Wedding
- Bois d 'Arc
- Dowry
- East Side Story
- The Test of the Bow
- After Looking into R.J. O'Duffy's Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery (1915)
- As in Wild Earth a Grecian Vase
- How a Poem Begins
- Tempus Edax RerumClose to Death
- 1 Early
- 2 Give Sorrow Words
- 3 Close to Death
- I Could Be Tempted
- After Viewing David Blackwood's Lost Party at Sea: The Sign
- The Pencil of Nature
- A Prayer for My Daughters
- Notes
- Acknowledgments