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The day is a cold grey stone / Allan Safarik.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.S153 D39 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Safarik, Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Regina : Hagios Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Allan Safarik is a poet who is driven by the love of language as much as by the external world. By discovery and singing he brings us a world we identify with and rejoice in. Always peculiar, always imaginative, these poems echo the language and concerns of poets like Newlove, and Birney. Here is the world of the imagination and the world of the rugged and beautiful West Coast landscape.
- The Day is a Cold Grey Stone brings together new and selected poems set in and inspired by the West Coast. Safarik has published two remarkable books of poetry from the prairies, Where Light Falls from the Sun and Yellowgrass. With The Day is a Cold Grey Stone Safarik's poetic journey has come full circle. Very few Canadian poets have written with such confidence and strength on two distinct regions of our country. He is one of very few who lay poetic claim to both the West Coast and the prairies.
- The Day is A Cold Grey Stone is a work where the geography of the imagination is a vibrant as the one before the author's eyes; and the one beneath his feet. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Unreasonable Doubt 14
- The Ice Man 5
- Three Sisters 6
- The Veranda 8
- Black Swans 20
- Grandpa's Lunch 21
- The Attic 22
- The Garage 23
- Myth's Taken 24
- The Afterthought 25
- Herring Gull 26
- Octopus 27
- Crab 28
- Hastings Express 29
- Fish Candy 30
- Fishmonger's Slogan 32
- The Signal 33
- The Delivery Boy 35
- Ballantyne Pier 37
- Liar's Club 38
- Victory Square 39
- Poetry Bird 40
- The Bloodletting 41
- God Loves Us Like Earthworms Love Wood 42
- The Patient 43
- The Unrented Room 44
- Crow Laughing in the Rain 45
- Meaning of Time 47
- The Debt 48
- The Collector 49
- Bulldog Moon 50
- US Customs 52
- Winter Sun 53
- Mystery 54
- Water Company 55
- The Calling Light 61
- The Day is a Cold Grey Stone 62
- Puddle Ducks in Stanley Park 64
- Lines Written in the Sylvia Hotel Bar 65
- The Fatman Dreams a Thin Shadow 67
- On the Way to Ethiopia 68
- Continuous Lime 70
- Vancouver Harlequin 71
- Happiness 74
- Blue 75
- Horticulture 77
- The Dead Man's Eye 78
- Salmon Arm Special 80
- Motel Window 82
- Night shade 83
- Coming Home 84
- Diversity of Time 85
- Wave Length 86
- Spinnaker 87
- Yellow and the Grave Sea 89
- Jellyfish Tofino Harbour 90
- Dogfish Poem 92
- Sea Wind 93
- Semiahmoo Bay 95
- The Voyage Home 96
- Kropotkin Meets Marx on the Summit of Mt. Hood 97
- Vernal Equinox 98
- Pitt River Road 100
- Pastoral 101
- Sunflower 102
- How I Know the Sky is a River 103
- Tale of the Firefly 104
- Do Birds Live in a Blue World 105
- The Rehearsal of Objects 106
- The Tree is a Cage of Moving Branches 107
- The Human Factor 108
- The Meadow of Blessed Cows 109
- When Hummingbirds Pollinate the Cows 110
- Icarus 112
- Perfect Zero 113
- Between a Man and a Woman was a Sail of Skin 114
- And Death is No Evil 115
- White Birds 116.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781926710044
- 1926710045
- OCLC:
- 594940577
- Publisher Number:
- 99938629994
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