Washita : New Poems / Patrick Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Patrick, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--19th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2014]

Summary:

Following the success of his award-winning memoir There is a Season (2004) and his bestselling novel Red Dog, Red Dog (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published his Collected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in this impressive and distinctive new book.Honest and self-aware, Washita evokes some of the most inexpressible experiences a human being can undergo: the loss of a parent, the breakdown of a body, the perversion o

Contents:

ARROYO; ARS POETICA; ASSINIBOINE; BARRANQUILLA; BOKUSEKI; BONSAI; BOXWOOD; BYA JHATOR; CALLIGRAPHY; CLOSE; COWICHAN VALLEY POEM; DISPENSATION; DRINKING STONE; EARLY PROMISES; ELI, ELI; FOR THE WOMAN WHO DANCED WITH THE ASHES OF HER SON; HARD-ROCK; HIRAGANA; HUNGER; IKI; IMAGO; INFORMIS; IN SNOW WHEN CREATURES AWAKEN TO SUCH BEAUTY; INCOHERENCE; INNOCENCE; LICHEN WHITE; LIMBO; LISTEN; LITTLE HELL'S GATE; MEDITATION IN THE BAY OF OTTERS; MERLIN; MIDDEN; MUJO; MUTE SWANS; NO STARS, THE WIND OUT OF THE NORTH; OFF VALPARAÍSO; PARTITA IN A MINOR; POETS, TALKING; QU'APPELLE HILLS

RUST AND WORN EDGESRYOANJI; SABI; SANCTUARY; SCARIFY; SCREE; SHELTER; SLACK BEAUTY; SOFT AND MOIST, HARD AND DRY; SOLACE; SOLSTICE COMING; SUBMISSION; SUNYATA; SWARF; TEMPLATE; THE ECSTASY OF NO; THE POET, WANTING MORE; THE UNBEARABLE BEAUTY OF DESPAIR ALBERT CAMUS WROTE OF IN HIS LAST NIGHTS; TRADITION; TREADLE; UGUISUBARI; WAR; WARBLER; WISHING NOT TO BE ALOOF LIKE STONE; GLOSSARY; AFTERWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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ISBN:

9781550176773

1550176773

OCLC:

894171241