Fame / Kevin McGrath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrath, Kevin, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

001st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Saint Julian Press, [2023]

Summary:

Fame is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places whose landscapes have informed the metaphors of this work. Love being itself the only metaphor that allows us to apprehend our true freedom in this world, enabling us to give more than we receive so that our aim be true. Fame is a sign of this transcendental knowledge and experience.

Contents:

Intro

COVER

F A M E

Books by KEVIN MCGRATH

Praise for F A M E

F O R E W O R D

I - 1

A bird flew to the air

I - 2

There are four winds about the world

I - 3

I love that beauty shall be beautiful

I - 4

The intrinsic stain of human life

I - 5

So much water goes past

I - 6

Does beauty exist in water

I - 7

If beauty is all slowness

I - 8

For a short time an endless moment

I - 9

Of all extant beauty

I - 1 0

If the soul has no shadow

I - 1 1

Your gentle sleeping innocence

i - 1 2

As we lay upon a shore

I - 1 3

The sowing of men and women

I - 1 4

Earth would show her cities

I - 1 5

Onto the zero lake they came

I - 1 6

Soon the swans return and

I - 1 7

I have seen things in my life

I - 1 8

As a shell that lies upon a lake

I - 1 9

The small terrors that enclose each day

I - 2 0

The entirety of human love

I - 2 1

They come and go and trespass

I - 2 2

The nature of my love is this

I - 2 3

Last night as you lay beside me

I - 2 4

Last night I held in my arms

I - 2 5

To sleep with you in my arms

I - 2 6

Do you remember the pink oleander

I - 2 7

The faint blur that we leave

I - 2 8

We shall meet in paradise

I - 2 9

What marvel is there more than you

I - 3 0

My heart is a three-masted boat

I - 3 1

What is the incidence of love

I - 3 2

Those who seek perfection in love

I - 3 3

Anxious primitive and undesiring

I - 3 4

In paradise there are no mirrors

I - 3 5

Aerial flowers of evening fall

I - 3 6

We are like water you and I

I - 3 7

Cicadas pigeons and sound of bells

I - 3 8

My daughter for all her loveliness

I - 3 9

She appears in the world as if

I - 4 0

As the sun enters the lion

I - 4 1.

A rearing lion like a magnet

I - 4 2

To emulate the cry of love

I - 4 3

When every passion vanishes

I - 4 4

Where is the boat I do not see it

I - 4 5

The saffron fragrance of the ocean

I - 4 6

Boats are coming out of the light

I - 4 7

Booming down towards Kythera

I - 4 8

Hours on the ship timbers creaking

I - 4 9

As the soul flutters away from its ashes

I - 5 0

Under the olive trees of old youth

I - 5 1

All those who in life have gone

I - 5 2

How all of experience only

I - 5 3

Like giants bowed in anxious thought

I - 5 4

The immortals are all about us

I - 5 5

Not just a single beauty

I - 5 6

In a soft blue cyanine light

I - 5 7

As we sat upon a hill-top

I - 5 8

As we walked out one evening

I - 5 9

In a low grey luminous light

I - 6 0

Among the pillars of the world

I - 6 1

On my fifty-fifth year on earth

I - 6 2

A curtain is drawn downward

I - 6 3

The voice of a falcon calls me away

i - 6 4

There is a little painted boat

I - 6 5

The outward movement of a soul

I - 6 6

Here on this nutmeg island

I - 6 7

There where the sea brooded and roared

i - 6 8

You wakening in your soft white net

I - 6 9

It is not what we leave

I I - 1

I like to watch you walk

I I - 2

The end that is always to come

I I - 3

There are two windows in this life

I I - 4

Stay hawk - there is no descent

I I - 5

Now the sacred geese advance

I I - 6

Under Polaris darkness spins

I I - 7

Tonight as a dead wind blows

I I - 8

The luminous paramour who has no body

I I - 9

Beside a grey-green lake

I I - 1 0

All victory can be broken

I I - 1 1

Fragrance of low evening sky

I I - 1 2

Geese circling in wide arcs

I I - 1 3

Who are you lying there

I I - 1 4.

If memory unbecomes us

I I- 1 5

Like a swallow you were

I I - 1 6

I deck the house in flowers

I I - 1 7

She files her nails with the grace of a wren

I I - 1 8

Here they are panting teeth bared

I I - 1 9

If the pursuit of happiness

I I - 2 0

How is it two people love

I I - 2 1

Geese landing upon a lake

I I - 2 2

A lion walks in the shade

I I - 2 3

On my sixty-sixth year on earth

I I - 2 4

The stainless mirror of awareness

I I - 2 5

As bees are to pollen so

I I - 2 6

The ingenuity of the sky

I I - 2 7

The beauty of a new young moon

I I - 2 8

The beauty of lakes

I I - 2 9

The suffering of light is not shadowy

I I - 3 0

Behold that man that one

I I - 3 1

Under thin metal oak leaves

I I - 3 2

The first thin snow silences

I I - 3 3

Initiative of light and birds

I I - 3 4

I am silenced by your beauty

I I - 3 5

I thought my grief would never end

I I - 3 6

Early morning like a shepherd

I I - 3 7

Bring some water it is time

I I - 3 8

What is the grain of these days

I I - 3 9

There are two cities on earth

I I I - 1

A stretch of grass and a stone

I I I - 2

The one syllabled god who walks

I I I - 3

The quiet mind is ardent

I I I - 4

Like a far-off distant beating

I I I - 5

The beauty of imperfection

I I I - 6

On this threshing floor of days

I I I - 7

The running of a human soul

I I I - 8

Kings stand in the sunlight

I I I - 9

In the night a hawk sleeps

I I I - 1 3

In this great water - river of swans

I I I - 1 4

The choirs that compose our lives

I I I - 1 5

A pathless barefoot sea where

I I I - 1 6

What is possible is ordained

I I I - 1 7

We hear slow engines beating

I I I - 1 8

There is a mirror in the world

I I I - 2 0.

A sound of rainfall pattering

I V - 2

There are two gateways here

I V - 3

I thought you were the sea

I V - 4

Sunrise and morning broke

I V - 5

We waited for the falcon's words

I V - 6

Regardless of where we go

I V - 7

Now that the light is closing

I V - 8

Goodnight summer too long

I V - 9

The four winds about the world

I V - 1 0

Travellers can never return

I V - 1 1

THE mystery of sorrow and

I V - 1 2

I V - 1 3

IN high conceptual places where

I V - 1 4

Turtledove of such radiance

I V - 1 5

Achilles you loved too much

I V - 1 6

The king of poetry said to his bride

A F T E R W O R D

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: McGrath, Kevin FAME

ISBN:

9781955194136

OCLC:

1375295934