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Sailing the forest : selected poems / Robin Robertson.
Van Pelt Library PR6068.O1925 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Robin, 1955-
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Summary:
- "A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary poetry. Robin Robertson's deceptively spare and mythically charged work is beautifully brutal, ancient and immediate, and capable of instilling menace and awe into our everyday landscape. These are poems drawn in shadow, tinged with salt and blood, that disarm the reader with their precise language and dreamlike illuminations. Robertson's unique world is a place of forked storms where "Rain. is silence turned up high" and we can see "the hay marry the fire / and the fire walk." Through five extraordinary collections, Robertson has captured the intangible, illusory world in razor-sharp language. "The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment--in a raked northern seascape, in a sexual or gustatory encounter--and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample, and reminiscent of early Heaney or Hughes" (The New Yorker). Sailing the Forest reveals a wild-hearted poet at the height of his talents"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A selection of poems spanning the career of the contemporary Scottish poet Robin Robertson"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- From A Painted Field (1997)
- New Gravity 1
- Three Ways of Looking at God 2
- Advent in Co. Fermanagh 3
- Static 6
- Sheela-na-Gig 7
- The Flaying of Marsyas 8
- Aberdeen 12
- Pibroch 13
- Fireworks 14
- Jack-in-the-Green 16
- Hands of a Farmer in Co. Tyrone 17
- Moving House 18
- Artichoke 20
- Silver Lake, Vermont 21
- The Immoralist 22
- Shot 24
- The Flowers of the Forest 25
- Six Views from the Camera Obscura 26
- FROM Slow Air (2002)
- Apart 28
- Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter 29
- The Language of Birds 30
- Maroon, Over Black on Red 32
- March, Lewisboro 34
- Break 40
- Exposure 41
- False Spring 42
- Dream of the Huntress 43
- The Thermal Image 44
- The Long Home 46
- Sorrows 48
- Waves 50
- Hide 51
- Asterion and the God 52
- Fall 55
- From Swithering (2006)
- The Park Drunk 56
- At Dawn 57
- What the Horses See at Night 58
- Trysts 60
- Primavera 61
- The Death of Actaeon 62
- Swimming in the Woods 68
- Ghost of a Garden 69
- Selkie 70
- Wormwood 71
- The Glair 72
- Heel of Bread 73
- New York Spring 74
- Myth 75
- The Lake at Dusk 76
- A Seagull Murmur 78
- Actaeon: The Early Years 79
- Leavings 84
- Donegal 85
- La Stanza delle Mosche 86
- Lizard 87
- Crossing the Archipelago 88
- Rainmaker 89
- Holding Proteus 90
- Trumpeter Swan 92
- From The Wrecking Light (2010)
- Album 93
- Signs on a White Field 94
- By Clachan Bridge 96
- The Plague Year 98
- Tulips 102
- Wonderland 103
- The Tweed 104
- About Time 105
- Cat, Failing 106
- A Gift 107
- Strindberg in Berlin 108
- Venery 110
- My Girls 111
- Leaving St Kilda 112
- Law of the Island 117
- Tinsel 118
- Lesson 119
- The Wood of Lost Things 120
- Middle Watch, Hammersmith 123
- Beginning to Green 124
- Easter, Liguria 125
- Widow's Walk 126
- Diving 128
- Abandon 130
- Hammersmith Winter 131
- At Roane Head 132
- From Hill of Doors (2013)
- Annunciation 135
- The Coming God 136
- A Childhood 138
- 1964 139
- Under Beinn Ruadhainn 142
- Corryvreckan 144
- A Quick Death 146
- Dionysus in Love 148
- The Fishermen's Farewell 155
- The Halving 156
- The Ghost of Actaeon 158
- A & E 159
- Falconer's Farewell 160
- Strindberg in Skovlyst 161
- The Cave of Sleep 166
- Dionysus and the Maiden 168
- The Shelter 171
- Party time 172
- Punchinello's Farewell 174
- The House of Rumour 176
- The God Who Disappears 178
- Finding the Keys 180
- Crimond 182
- Glass of Water and Coffee Pot 183
- Port na h-Abhainne 184
- The Key 185.
- ISBN:
- 9780374255343
- 0374255342
- OCLC:
- 870517852
- Online:
- Cover image
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