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[North American ed.]. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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POETRY -- Australian & Oceanian.
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FICTION -- General.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sampson, Sam. Halcyon Ghosts. New York : Auckland University Press, 2014 9781775587392 |
| ISBN |
9781775587415 (electronic bk.) |
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177558741X (electronic bk.) |
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9781775587392 (electronic bk.) |
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1775587398 (electronic bk.) |
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