| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 289 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
How my sister, my mother, and I still travel down Balwearie Road -- New poems. Wee spider -- Family fugue -- Your neighbor as youself -- Time machine -- Haiku -- Mary Smart -- Prayer chain -- Snoring -- In the rose garden -- Encounter -- Monday -- To a brainy child in distress -- Ending with a line by Curtis Mayfield -- Last walk at home -- R.S. Thomas -- Dispatches from Devereux Slough -- Interesting times -- Good God -- Bone fires -- North Sea (1978). Foreigners -- We dare not go a-hunting -- Planting -- Close -- My parents have come home laughing -- Kicking the candles out -- Goodbye to a poltergeist -- Lullaby for Amy -- Rote Walker (1981). Greensleeves -- Ascension of the Red Madonna -- Glossolalia -- Accordion music -- Spell -- Descriptions of heaven and hell -- Rote walker -- What child is this? -- Far and away (1985). Far and away -- Supremes -- Long-stemmed roses -- By-blows -- While you are gone I look for constellations -- Poem in June -- City in the sea -- Cavafy in Redondo -- Black Rivieria (1990). Children -- Black Rivieria -- Awakened by sea lions -- Shrine and the burning wheel -- Days of '74 -- Good Friday -- Gift -- Miss Urquhart's tiara -- Questions for Ecclesiastes (1997). Ground swell -- Transfiguration -- Proverbs -- Dressing my daughters -- After disappointment -- Wave -- Grid -- Questions for Ecclesiastes -- Upswelling -- Unholy sonnets -- Skin cancer -- Last suppers -- Worry bird -- Unholy sonnets (2000). Prologue -- Word "answer" -- Someone is always praying -- Cycle -- Breath like a house fly -- Sightings -- Nothing but pleasure -- World -- Epilogue -- To the green man (2004), To the green man -- Testimony of a roasted chicken -- Butterflies under persimmon -- Astragaloi -- Fox night -- As close as breathing -- In the tube -- In church with Hart Crane -- George Herbert -- Excitement -- Five psalms -- Canticle -- Song of Roland -- Over the river and through the woods -- Secret ocean -- Summer -- Coyotes -- Pair of tanagers -- Prayer for our daughters -- Epistles (2007). In the clouds -- For the birds -- To the trees -- On the street -- Through the waves. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
|
| ISBN |
9781932511895 paperback alkaline paper |
|
193251189X paperback alkaline paper |
|
9781932511925 hardcover alkaline paper |
|
193251192X hardcover alkaline paper |
|
