Night calling / Judy Gahagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gahagan, Judy.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

77 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Enitharmon Press ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Dufour Editions, 2003.

Summary:

Night and darkness are fugitive in a world of continuous illumination. Night, the region of mystery, of inner and outer space, of dreams, transformation and refuge from the quotidian, was exalted by the romantics. The poems in Night Calling are inspired by the night; its moods and companions hover at the edges -- from midnight Venice to the choreography of the funeral cortege, from abandoned Chernobyl to the winter solstice. Autumn and winter are the chosen seasons, falling cadence the preferred mode.

Contents:

Maestri of the Processional 9

Going Gentle into That ... 10

The Lightness of Not Being 11

Turning Away 14

Sudden Hoar-Frost 15

Graduation Party 16

The Trees Believe They're Dying 17

Then He Orders up the Moon 19

Returning to Russia 20

Funfair near Chernobyl 21

A Long-Drawn-Out Coronation 22

Field for the Low Season 23

Solstice 24

Watching the Swifts 27

Get Out of Here 28

'Suppose You Lost Your Own True Self?' 29

Letting Go in Venice 30

Exorcist 32

Rooftop Protest 33

Saving the Pits 34

'May You Have Soft Landings' 35

On the Occasion of the First Russian Quiz Show 37

Green Lanes with Skateboarder 38

As If it Were a Present to Us 39

Polytechnic 40

Wintering it Out 41

The Lake Belongs to the University 42

Short Leave 45

Where the Beeches 46

Field for Returning Home 47

Today Our Main Concern ... 49

Keeping the Water Moving 50

Clematis Petals 52

Permit River 53

Babushka 54

Exiles: Pearl River Delta 56

Two-Sided Sails 58

Past Karl Marx to My Father's Grave 60

As Pessoa Says 61

To the Airport 63

The School for Lacemaking 64

Skiers 66

Asylum in Autumn 68

Hour of the Wolf 69

Bridal Light 70

Night Call 71

Tonight 72

For Other Places Other Times 73

In Tempo Rubato 75

My Futures Wheel and Fan Like Evening Birds 76.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1900564335

OCLC:

53102425