The afterlife of trees / Brian Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartlett, Brian, 1953-

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Physical Description:

ix, 100 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost,/and first and last are/utterly themselves,/fuller and finer than any letter or number,/any 7 or T. Their fragmentary afterlife goes on/in a guitar's body and a hockey stick, in the beaked faces/up a totem pole and the stake through a vampire's heart,/in a fragrant cheese-board, a Welsh love-spoon,/a sweat-stained axe handle, a giant green dragonfly suspended from the ceiling with twine,/in the spellbinding shapechanging/behind a glass woodstove-door.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

A Box for Small Births

Listening on the Back Steps

How Acupuncture Is Like Poetry

Lost Footnote from an Essay on Rhythm

Shuffles

Two for the Winds

Under the Old Roof

The Colours at McCormack’s Beach

Sloth Surprises

The Afterlife of Trees

A Toss of Cones

A Lake Named After My Ancestors

The Basement that Became a Garden

Gardening Until Dark

Graveyard Haiku

Tree Trilogy

Hawthornden Improvisations

A World of Counting

Work at Twenty-One

Three Windows

After the Age of Parties

Every Lion Until Now

A Glosa for Joshua

Sick for the New Millennium

Diner in a Storm

Three Tales of Halifax

Atlas, We Laughed

Foot-doctor for the Homeless

The Sonographer

Talking to the Birds

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-282-85834-3

9786612858345

0-7735-6812-3

OCLC:

48163573