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Waterlight : selected poems / Kathleen Jamie.
Van Pelt Library PR6060.A477 W29 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jamie, Kathleen, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The "Tree House," winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collection "It isn' t mine to give.that knows the depth of the river yet sings of it on land." - from " The Dipper" For more than twenty years, Kathleen Jamie has been writing the poetry that has established her as " the leading Scottish poet of her generation" ("The Sunday Times"). Lyrical and meditative, her poems engage the natural world and human society with an authentic, earthly spirituality. "Waterlight" at last makes Jamie' s work available to American readers. Her poetry- rendered sometimes in the Scots dialect, sometimes in the descriptive bursts of a naturalist' s field guide - confronts gender, sex, landscape, and nationhood with the vivacity of an essential poetic voice.
- Contents:
- From The Tree House
- The Wishing Tree 3
- Frogs 5
- Alder 6
- Water Day 7
- The Cave of the Fish 9
- For When the Grape-vine's Sap 10
- Before the Wind 11
- Speirin 12
- The Bower 13
- Swallows 14
- The Blue Boat 15
- The Glass-hulled Boat 16
- White-sided Dolphins 17
- Basking Shark 18
- The Whale-watcher 20
- The Buddleia 21
- Hame 22
- Pipistrelles 23
- Daisies 24
- Rhododendrons 25
- Moult 26
- The Falcon 27
- The Tree House 28
- The Cupboard 30
- The Creel 31
- The Brooch 32
- The Puddle 33
- The Dipper 35
- From Jizzen
- Crossing the Loch 39
- The Graduates 41
- Forget It 43
- The Barrel Annunciation 47
- The Bogey-wife 48
- Ultrasound 49
- The Tay Moses 57
- Bonaly 59
- Mrs McKellar, her martyrdom 60
- Flower-sellers, Budapest 62
- Song of Sunday 64
- Hackit 66
- Pioneers 68
- Suitcases 69
- Lochan 70
- Rhododendrons 71
- Lucky Bag 73
- The Well at the Broch of Gurness 74
- St Brides 75
- The Green Woman 76
- Bolus 77
- On the Design Chosen for the New Scottish Parliament Building / Architect Enric Miralles 78
- Meadowsweet 79
- From Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead
- Julian of Norwich 83
- The Queen of Sheba 85
- Hand Relief 89
- Child with Pillar Box and Bin Bags 90
- Fountain 91
- Wee Wifey 92
- Outreach 93
- Perfect Day 95
- Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead 96
- Arraheids 98
- Sky-burial 99
- Swallows and Swifts 102
- The Sea-house 103
- Rooms 105
- At Point of Ness 106
- Skeins o Geese 108.
- ISBN:
- 9781555974657
- 1555974651
- OCLC:
- 99875568
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