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Burning Wire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fainlight, Ruth
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Highgreen : Bloodaxe Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Ruth Fainlight's poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). The key image of this collection is burning wire, expressing both illumination and blindness, tension and release, danger and judgement.
- Contents:
- Burning Wire
- In the Dream
- Song
- Transience
- Ephemeral Lives
- The Beetle
- What
- Thankful
- The Tree Surgeon
- Ordinary Sorrow
- Potatoes
- Prosody
- This Visitor
- Footprint
- Insistence
- Black
- La Chaise Bleue
- Feathers
- Our Song
- Primrose Cottage
- Sunday Afternoon
- Four Pheasants
- The Drive Back
- The English Country Cottage
- Green Tomatoes
- An Encounter Near Ladbroke Square
- In Ladbroke Square
- The Begonias
- Lisbon Faces
- Peruvian Views
- Montevideo
- Crushed Geraniums
- Shocked
- The Clarinettist
- Opera in Holland Park
- La Traviata in 2001
- Spiralling
- Shawl
- The Constellation of the Jacket
- The Coloration of Feathers
- Feathers and Jug
- The Second Page
- The Screen Door
- My Mother's Eyes
- Even Captain Marvel
- December Moon
- Cousins
- Those Days
- Prescience
- Brush and Comb
- Essential Equipment
- Knives
- Stranger
- A Picture
- The Mechanism
- In Illo Tempore
- Sheba and Solomon.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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