Birds, metals, stones and rain / Russell Thornton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornton, Russell, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Maderia Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Russell Thornton's latest collection of poems, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain, explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial.Simple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative consciousness. A scavenger alley crow is the universal creative spirit in brutal primordial disguise. A murderously violent father and son are integrated into a single new man who walks ""bright as a song in the air."" A young daughter flings up her arms to seagulls that ""collect up the world, opening it like

Contents:

I; Squall; The Oldest Rock in the World; Burrard Inlet Ships; Nest of the Swan's Bones; The Man Who Sleeps in Cemeteries; Greenness; The Rain Bush; Lead; The Envelope; The Work of the Creek; Triangle; North Vancouver Snow; II; Rain Wolf, West Coast Trail; Palomino; Andean Flute; River Rainbow; When the Big Hand Is on the Starfish; The Young Ravens that Cry; Cormorants at Lonsdale Quay; Lost Rain Casting of a Deer; Men Fixing a Roof in the Rain; Aluminum Beds; How the Alley Crow Ends; Flowers; III; Book of Sparrows; My Daughter and the Seagull's Cry; Mykolaiv Bells; Arrivals, Departures

Perfect DayPlaying With Stones; My Grandmother's Eyes; Blade; Aphrodite's Mirror; My Daughter and the Geometry of Time; Ambleside Beach; Gas; Iron, a Summary; The Praise Tree; The Aeschylus Rock; Acknowledgements; About the Author

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ISBN:

9781550176018

1550176013

9781550176575

1550176579

OCLC:

912235806