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"Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick James Errington's first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness. In these poems human voices whisper th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Errington, Patrick James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • On Highway 2a Near Blackfalds, Alberta, as Night Comes On
  • For a Liberation of Bees
  • Spooky Action at a Distance
  • Taxidermy in Burning House
  • Shrift
  • Burning the Fields
  • Half-Life
  • Ars Poetica, without Child or Song
  • Alta, Leaving
  • Missive
  • White Lies
  • Fieldwork in Secret
  • Little Lit
  • I Was a Dream My Body Had
  • Motel
  • The Call
  • Long Last
  • Kwashiorkor
  • They Don't Make Gods for Non-believers
  • Practice Makes Perfect
  • Imaginaria
  • What Gives
  • Half Measures
  • Light Revisions
  • Cold: Exchange
  • 1. Vignette Study, January
  • 2. Field with Missing Figure
  • 3. Sunset, Sylvan Lake, Alberta
  • 4. Self-portrait as Possibility
  • 5. Landscape Without
  • 6. Untitled Sketch, Afterward
  • 7. Preparatory Study for Whatever Is to Come
  • The Swailing
  • Call the Wolf a Wolf
  • Not an Elegy
  • When the Doctor Tells Him Her Cancer Is Back, I See , My Father Says, and Hangs Up
  • Inheritance
  • Still Life with Approaching Crow
  • The Point
  • Fire, Catching
  • Measures of Containment
  • To a Boyhood in Winter
  • In the Event of Winter
  • The Hold
  • The Opposite of Poetry
  • Poem, Despite Everything
  • Gleaning
  • This Was Something More
  • Augury
  • Spooky Action at a Distance
  • Low Tide at the End of the Peffer Burn
  • To Be Redacted Should It Become Necessary
  • Only Time
  • Never Say Never Say Never
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments