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The afterlife of trees /

From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost,/and first and last are/utterly themselves,/fuller and finer than any letter or number,/any 7 or T. Their fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bartlett, Brian, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS
  • A BOX FOR SMALL BIRTHS
  • Listening on the Back Steps
  • How Acupuncture Is Like Poetry
  • Lost Footnote from an Essay on Rhythm
  • Shuffles
  • Two for the Winds
  • Under the Old Roof
  • The Colours at McCormack's Beach
  • Sloth Surprises
  • The Afterlife of Trees
  • A Toss of Cones
  • A Lake Named After My Ancestors
  • The Basement that Became a Garden
  • Gardening Until Dark
  • 1 four cats among the flowers
  • 2 curses on garden thieves
  • 3 whippersnipper rant
  • 4 rat by a peony bush
  • 5 Charlie's voice
  • Graveyard Haiku
  • Tree TrilogyHAWTHORNDEN IMPROVISATIONS
  • Hawthornden Improvisations
  • A WORLD OF COUNTING
  • Work at Twenty-One
  • Three Windows
  • After the Age of Parties
  • Every Lion Until Now
  • A Glosa for Joshua
  • Sick for the New Millennium
  • Diner in a Storm
  • Three Tales of Halifax
  • Atlas, We Laughed
  • Foot-doctor for the Homeless
  • The Sonographer
  • TALKING TO THE BIRDS
  • Talking to the Birds
  • 1 to a red-eyed vireo
  • 2 to a northern gannet
  • 3 to an albino red-tailed hawk
  • 4 to a great blue heron
  • 5 to a goldfinch
  • 6 to an osprey7 to a brown-tailed shrike
  • 8 to a sooty shearwater
  • Acknowledgments