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Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Peter Dale
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • I: SEVEN CANADIAN POEMS
  • The Power of Prayer
  • Occitanian Spring
  • Renvoi
  • Wittenham Clumps
  • Something Precious
  • Holy Land I: Truth
  • Holy Land II: Force
  • Confession
  • II: THE SIZE OF EARTH
  • Mae Salong
  • Wat Pa Nanachat
  • The Tao of 9/11
  • Making History, Unfolding World
  • The Size of Earth: A Simple Short Poem to Get Us Out of Iraq
  • III: GLOBAL SONNETS
  • IV: FOR MAYLIE SCOTT
  • For Maylie Scott
  • Marianna
  • V: COMMUTING TO THE LAND OF MEDICINE BUDDHA
  • Commuting to the Land of Medicine Buddha
  • VI
  • The Wings of Time PassingThe Tree
  • The Riddle
  • Difficulty
  • Pleasure
  • Earthlight
  • Cape Flattery, Washington
  • Turn of a Century
  • Non E Cosa in Terra
  • Pelican
  • What Is Beauty?
  • Words to Du Fu from the Oakland Airport Parking Lot
  • Kingfisher
  • Mendocino
  • VII
  • A Simple, Difficult, Lesson in Thai
  • Breathing Exercise: A How-To Poem
  • No Third World
  • Good-Bye to Thailand
  • i. Sawng Thaew
  • ii. Leaving Phayao
  • Secular Prayer
  • Acknowledgments