The tram conductor's blue cap / Michael Harlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlow, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poetry, Michael Harlow writes, is when words sing. In The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap, words do sing; they also shout and whisper, riddle and recur, express and evade. Though these poems are often allegorical and philosophical, the real underlies the imagined (while the imagination invents the real), so we meet a stranger in the Oyster Bar at Grand Central, we travel to Athens and Mexico and Troy, we hear from Sappho, Marco Polo, Cavafy and Emily Dickinson. And at the centre of the collection is a tram conductor, ?inside a story that dreams / him'. As a habit of imagination, these poems ci

Contents:

CONTENTS; EPIGRAPH; A SHOUT; IN A FIELD OF SNOW; LOVERS' QUARREL; ALL ABOUT THE WORLD; CANTICLE; BEAT THE POT AND SING; LOOK, A ROUND; IN THE PICTURE; IN THE BOOK OF QUIET; OUR UNDERTAKER AS FALLEN ANGEL; HEAVY TRAFFIC IN THE DARK; ICING ON THE CAKE, WITH GOD AND DARWIN; THE WAYWARDNESS OF WORDS; WAITING; ANECDOTAL AESTHETICS IN ATHENS; LOS HOMBRES VERDES; NOW THE BIRDS ARE SINGING; TRANSLATING NARCISSUS; THE RETURN; 'BRIDE WITH BEAUTIFUL FEET'; GRAFFITI RIFF, BUZZ ME MISS BLUE; BILLET-DOUX; DESIGN; HEART ABSOLUTELY I CAN; KITE; TALKING MILLIONS; THE LIGHT IS DARK ENOUGH; ON THE FAULT LINE

THE PARSON'S SERMONTHE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR; THE WORLD ALSO IS A PLACE; NIGHTMARE; WITH PAPER HATS ON; DEATH DUTIES; THE TRAM CONDUCTOR'S BLUE CAP; ON LOOKING: IN THE LOST AND FOUND; TAKING A LINE FOR A WALK; THE INVISIBLE READER; NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; About the Author; Also by Michael Harlow; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775586661

1775586669

9781775582106

1775582108

9781869405205

186940520X

OCLC:

863823794