| Description |
240 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
From the circle game: This is a photograph of me -- After the flood, we -- City planners -- Eventual proteus -- Circle game -- Migration, C.P.R. -- Journey to the interior -- Some objects of wood and stone -- Pre-amphibian -- Against still life -- Place, fragments -- Explorers -- Settlers -- From The animals in that country: The animals in that country -- Foundling -- Landlady -- Fortification -- At the tourist centre in Boston -- Elegy for the giant tortoises -- Roominghouse, winter -- It is dangerous to read newspapers -- Progressive insanities of a pioneer -- Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein -- Backdrop addresses cowboy -- I was reading a scientific article -- More and more -- Voice -- Reincarnation of Captain Cook -- Axiom -- I am sitting -- I see you -- What is it -- You are the sun -- Hesitations outside the door -- Lying here -- I look up -- I can't tell you -- They were all inaccurate -- From You are happy: Newsreel, man and firing squad -- November -- Digging -- Tricks with mirrors -- You are happy -- Songs of the transformed: Pig song -- Bull song -- Rat song -- Crow song -- Song of the worms -- Owl song -- Siren song -- Song of the fox -- Song of the hen's head -- Corpse song -- Circe/mud poems: Is/not -- Eating fire -- Four auguries -- Head against white -- There is only one of everything -- Late August -- Book of ancestors |
| Summary |
Poems deal with death, self-image, disasters, politics, children, evolution, history, the news, language, dreams, animals, and love |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Canadian poetry.
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Poetry as Topic.
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| LC no. |
87017946 |
| ISBN |
0395404223 (paperback) |
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