Later / Philip Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Philip, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Tarset : Bloodaxe Books, [2013]

Summary:

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father's old age. This new book goes further, through the failing of the body, through the mind's weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the traumas of the past. It follows the journey to the end...then beyond, to the tentative byways through which mourning moves. With an instinct for form that both controls and releases depths of feeling, Philip Gross writes poetry that proves it can be trusted with the most raw yet essential things of life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Flying Down Wales 9

Home, 1990 10

Stroke Ward 11

In High Care 13

Barn Music 14

Not Quite The Dark Ages 16

Step 18

Survivor 19

Closed Loops 20

Flat Earthers 24

The Works 26

Variations on a Theme from the Cornish 27

Fall 28

Birch, His Book 29

Nimzo-Indian 31

Spoor 32

How We Knew 38

The Scarecrow 39

Finally 40

Seep 41

Point 43

Later 45

Glosa: Westron Wynde 46

Jacob's Island 48

Legacy 49

Hrmsa 50

Bark Moth 52

Phlogiston 53

Dirac: The Tower 54

The Garden of Nebamun 56

Suncatcher 59

Tuonela 61

Dummies 64

Mist over the Weir 65

Barry Island, with Dante and Ducks 67

Goal 69

Whit 70

Words for the Shortest Day 72

Epiphany Weather 74

Snow the Cartographer 75

Some People Have Communications 76

Orrery 77

White Night 78.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

185224979X

9781852249793

OCLC:

853507372

Publisher Number:

99963014601