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High speed through shoaling water : new poems / Tom Wayman.
LIBRA PR9199.3.W39 H53 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wayman, Tom, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., 2007.
- Summary:
- High Speed Through Shoaling Water incorporates the beauty of the rural landscape with the strangeness of living in today's world. These deceptively plain spoken poems cover country life, social issues, love's vicissitudes, aging and writing. Wayman's poetry is both celebratory and elegiac, personal and political-recording the passage of time, the events that mark the years and the biological force that bears all living things forward, whether they want to travel that way or not.
- Contents:
- Sixty
- Inguinal 11
- Hornet 13
- Recurrence 14
- Who 15
- The Fountain 16
- High Speed Through Shoaling Water 17
- Under 18
- Alps Alturas: Sixty 19
- Wind Carol: The Sound 21
- How Am I Doing for Time? 23
- Eternal 26
- Greenup 27
- Portrait of Myself as a Cloud
- Springbomb 31
- A Bird Made of Light 32
- Wind Carol: Aspen 33
- Post 34
- Nocturne 36
- Portrait of Myself as a Cloud, or Natural Feature on the Valley Floor 37
- Secrets of Summer 39
- Bear Ballad 41
- Nocturne II 43
- Shift 44
- The People Who Used to Own This Place 46
- Autumn Secrets 47
- Autumn Heat 49
- Grove 51
- Secrets of Winter 52
- Emblem 54
- Outrider
- The Stone 57
- In the Dumper 59
- Carrot 60
- Ballad of the Pickups 63
- Anthem 64
- Teaching English 69
- Death of the Grandmothers 70
- Postmodern 911 72
- Backpack 75
- Messages 77
- Memories of the Glacier 78
- Outrider 80
- Beating 82
- Moving On 84
- Autumn Fires 87
- Gypsy Highway
- Ballad of the Windshield Wipers 91
- Ballad of Death and the Gypsy 92
- Ballad of the Brotherhood 94
- Ballad of the Road 95
- Gypsy Highway 97
- A Ring Without a Stone 98
- Eye Ballad 99
- Anti-Mother Ballad 100
- Gypsy Love 102
- Employment Application 103
- Road Report 105
- Wave
- The Cape 109
- Wind Carol: The Weight 110
- Snow Man 112
- Silence 113
- Ballad of the Destroyed Guitar 114
- Love Loss Ballad 116
- Companion 118
- Nearer to the Sun
- Coyote Wind 123
- Nocturne III 125
- Calgary 126
- Windfarm 129
- Absentia 130
- Voyage 132
- Young Claus 134
- The Loneliness of Beauty 137
- Duo 139
- And Me Happiest behind a Windshield 140
- Take My Word
- Invocation 143
- Bok 144
- The Best 145
- Reading a Book of Forty-eight Poems, Not One of Which I Understand 146
- Garden 148
- Journal 150
- Take My Word For 151
- Poem Lullaby 152.
- ISBN:
- 9781550174014 :
- OCLC:
- 155715413
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