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Peripheral light : selected and new poems / John Kinsella ; selected and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.K55 P47 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinsella, John, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 194 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2004]
- Summary:
- This landmark publication heralds the long-awaited American debut of one of Australia's best poets. John Kinsella delves deep into the emotional truths recorded in the undulations of his homeland. He uses the complexity of the natural world as a lens to explore human experience: the rich desperation of survival, the violence of sun and shadow, the blinding force of life that surges through everything around us and reflects our own sense of futility, fear, and occasional acceptance. All of this he accomplishes in a whisper -- the divergent mysteries of night, among them loneliness and independence, are almost deciphered by the black twisting of tree branches. With effusive, rhythmic language these poems draw you in tight and slow, showing internal and external landscapes, finding a beauty even in the spoiled.
- Contents:
- Links 3
- Finches 5
- Crane and Hawk 7
- Black Suns 8
- Inland 9
- Old Hands/New Tricks 11
- Two Days Before Harvest 12
- The Myth of the Grave 13
- Pillars of Salt 15
- Pipeline 17
- The Orchardist 18
- The Bottlebrush Flowers 19
- Plumburst 20
- Eclogue on a Well 21
- Wheatbelt Gothic or Discovering a Wyeth 22
- Skippy Rock, Augusta: Warning, the undertow 23
- Chilli Catharsis 26
- On Entering Your Thirty-First Year 27
- Warhol at Wheatlands 30
- The Ascension of Sheep 32
- Sculpting a Poem from the Landscape's Painting 33
- Rock Picking: Building Cairns 36
- Poem for Those at Wheatlands 38
- The Silo 39
- Why They Stripped the Last Trees 41
- Fog 42
- Goading Storms Out of a Darkening Field 44
- Parrot Deaths: Rites of Passage 45
- Skeleton weed/generative grammar 46
- Bluff Knoll Sublimity 48
- Of Writing at Wheatlands 50
- Anathalamion 54
- Lightning Tree 57
- Approaching the Anniversary of my Last Meeting with my Son 58
- Grave 60
- Tenebrae 61
- Solitary Activities 62
- Wild Radishes 63
- Drowning in Wheat 64
- The Hunt 66
- An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid-Autumn 69
- The Machine of the Twentieth Century 71
- Skylab and The Theory of Forms 73
- The Bermuda Triangle 75
- The Road to Brookton
- on the nature of memory 76
- After Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's 79
- Hockney's Doll Boy 80
- Shoes once shod in a blacksmith's shop 82
- Il faut cultiver notre jardin 83
- Hectic Red 85
- Drought 87
- Funeral Oration 88
- Holderlin was not Mad 89
- Sanctus, Sanctum: a love poem 96
- Sine qua non 99
- The Branches 100
- Field Notes from Mount Bakewell 101
- The Predominance of Red 109
- A Cardinal Influences Peripheral Sight 111
- Lyrical Unification in Gambier 112
- Diagnostics 114
- Cultures 115
- The Chambers 116
- House Eclogue 120
- Poltergeist House Eclogue 123
- The Gift 125
- First Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 126
- Second Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 129
- Third Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 132
- Fourth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 134
- Fifth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 136
- Sixth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 138
- Seventh Essay on Linguistic Disobedience 141
- The Shed 143
- Through Vertical Blinds 146
- The Trial 148
- The Semiotics of a Truck Overturned in Fog 150
- On the Rejection of the Term "Property" for This Place 151
- The Crest 154
- Hay Bale Collected Off Road 155
- Lighting the Bushman Fire Before the Others Rise 157
- Boustrophedon 159
- The Burning of the Hay Stacks 161
- Salt Lesson 163
- Chainsaw 164
- Against Depression 166
- The Early Onset of Darkness 167
- Land Leased Back to Themselves 168
- Miracle at New Norcia 171
- Imitations of Sign and Subjectivity in York 173
- The View 177
- Location Triggers 178
- Across the Gravel Wastes 180
- Mulga Parrots 181
- Flight 182
- The Killing Tree 184
- Removing the Fox Baits 186
- Cold 187
- Aftershocks 188
- Liminal Devotional 189
- Acknowledgments for Previously Uncollected Poems
- The Age
- Agni
- Angelaki
- Antipodes
- The Australian
- Australian Book Review
- Boston Review
- Copper Tales
- Georgia Review
- The Guardian
- Jacket
- The Kenyon Review
- Kunapipi
- Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings
- The Literary Review
- Near East Review
- New England Review
- North American Review
- Poetry
- Poetry London
- Poetry New Zealand
- Poetry Review
- The Republic of Letters
- Seneca Review
- Southerly
- Verse
- Webdelsol
- The Yale Review.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393058212
- OCLC:
- 52757499
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