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Author Sampson, Sam, 1969- author.

Title Halcyon ghosts / Sam Sampson
Edition [North American ed.]
Published New York : Auckland University Press, 2014

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; The Kid; Halcyon Ghosts; Halcyon Ghosts; Erasure; Doubled Lexicon; Flushed from a Tidal Retreat; All the Everlasting Cataracts; I Spilled My Story; Broken Architecture; Broken Architecture; A Strange Harvest ... A; The Tombstone Epitaph; Unearthed Vestiges; She is Sparrow-like and Fierce; Six Reels of Joy; Notes; Biography
Summary Halcyon Ghosts presents thirteen poems, thirteen shapes of knowing? from the cinematic reel?The Kid', splicing stills of the poet's grandmother and Charlie Chaplin, to the re-verse soundings of?Six Reels of Joy', celebrating the birth of the poet's daughter. The title poem displays a ghostly counterpoint of birds and words in flight; strikethrough poems are threaded through with runes of fact and fiction. Language, Sampson demonstrates, is as particular and transitory as the patterning of the natural world. Poems layer, link and break apart, sampling and echoing other texts? whether t
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Subject Poetry
Poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Poetry as Topic
poetry.
POETRY -- Australian & Oceanian.
FICTION -- General.
Poetry, Modern
Poetry
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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