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Approximately paradise / Don Schofield.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.C52515 A87 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schofield, Don.
- Series:
- Contemporary poetry series (Orlando, Fla.)
- University of Central Florida. Contemporary poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- x, 95 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]
- Summary:
- Written over a period of twenty years, the poems in this collection chart the experiences of an American living in Greece. Told in four parts, this odyssey of sorts traces a personal journey from naivete and alienation to identity and belonging.
- Contents:
- Islands
- Teaching High School in Greece 5
- I Don't Know the Local 7
- Hitching 9
- Island Dance 11
- Bee Box 13
- Sentimental 15
- Volcano 16
- The Physics of Parting 18
- Archaeology 20
- Dead Shepherd's Hut 22
- Carbon 24
- Cove 26
- Swaying Doors 28
- Spring Cleaning 30
- Sarcophagi
- 4 A.M., Leaving Karpathos 33
- Sarcophagi with Glyphs 34
- Approximately Paradise 36
- Hagar in the Wilderness 38
- The Lights of Famagusta 39
- Resident of the Old City 41
- Lazarus in Love 43
- Beirut Pastoral 44
- Sacks of Flour 45
- Drystone Wall 47
- Eidothea Grieving 49
- Polyphemos on His Veranda 51
- Callicles Puts a Head on the Argument 53
- Paradise (of Bronze Age Construction) 55
- Signs and Arrows
- Signs and Arrows 59
- Hometown Junkyard 62
- Angel 64
- Mud and Marble 66
- Cities 67
- Each of Us a Broken Tally 68
- Free 69
- Blue Pears 71
- Low Tide, Mount Shasta 73
- Knots 75
- Big Little 77
- Gnat 82
- Homage to the Wheels 84
- My Neighbor's Brush.
- ISBN:
- 0813024609
- 0813024617
- OCLC:
- 48176932
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