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Rooster
About this book
A remarkable collection about love, art, nature, and family, this book of poems observes with painterly precision the commonplaces of experience, creating landscapes of emotional range and intensity. Biography, history, and geography are interwoven in potent new forms: a lover's fragile caress, the skills of a dentist, the death of irony celebrated by crows, and a green tree burning in a red room. Novel experiences and ancient panoramas embolden the second and third sections of the book while two concluding sections offer expansive, rehabilitated vistas of a world that is haunting and new.
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I
I am seeking a statue
Drowned in my youth
Zbigniew Herbert
Intimate Expanses
Expecting little to come
from the tired liturgy
of dreams
he tugged gently at the quilt
and kissed an ear
tasting on his lips while
she lay sleeping
an intimate expanse of skin.
Snow
He looked out.
Snow was falling
with a certain pride
and fur-thick
like dead letters returning
without courtesy or love
from an eternal lamentable
office of shadows.
White Sail
5 a.m.
Lying awake
I reach for you
sleeping
touch
the white sail
of your skin.
The Opposite of Goodbye
Listen to the wife
of the expert in elegies
as she delivers
this from her husband
Walk
Dream
Love
(as she reads)
Friends
my happiness is nothing
without you
Only Light
Stay there while I go out
itchy with the stars
to feel blind for the inkwell
I know but I don’t know
what every night allows me
why every day brings only light
The Telling
The big square light and the smaller
r...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- About the Author
- Also by Gerry McGrath from Carcanet Press
- Copyright
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