Peripheral light / selected and new poems
2005, First Edition. New York ; London : W.W. Norton. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Publisher's review copy. Item #475220
ISBN: 0393327051
Physical description; 224 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Introduced by Harold Bloom. Includes index. Contents; Introduction – Links – Finches – Crane and Hawk – Black Suns – Inland – Old Hands/New Tricks – Two Days Before Harvest – The Myth of the Grave – Pillars of Salt – Pipeline – The Orchardist – The Bottlebrush Flowers – Plumburst – Eclogue on a Well – Wheatbelt Gothic or Discovering a Wyeth – Skippy Rock, Augusta: Warning, the undertow – Chilli Catharsis – On Entering Your Thirty-First Year – Warhol at Wheatlands – The Ascension of Sheep – Sculpting a Poem from the Landscape's Painting – Rock Picking: Building Cairns – Poem for Those at Wheatlands – The Silo – Why They Stripped the Last Trees – Fog – Goading Storms Out of a Darkening Field – Parrot Deaths: Rites of Passage – Skeleton weed/generative grammar – Bluff Knoll Sublimity – Of Writing at Wheatlands – Anathalamion – Lightning Tree – Approaching the Anniversary of my Last Meeting with my Son – Grave – Tenebrae – Solitary Activities – Wild Radishes – Drowning in Wheat – The Hunt – An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid-Autumn – The Machine of the Twentieth Century – Skylab and The Theory of Forms – The Bermuda Triangle – The Road to Brookton–on the nature of memory – After Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's – Hockney's Doll Boy – Shoes once shod in a blacksmith's shop – Il faut cultiver notre jardin – Hectic Red – Drought – Funeral Oration – Hölderlin was not Mad – Sanctus, Sanctum: a love poem – Sine qua non – The Branches – Field Notes from Mount Bakewell – The Predominance of Red – A Cardinal Influences Peripheral Sight – Lyrical Unification in Gambier – Diagnostics – Cultures – The Chambers – House Eclogue – Poltergeist House Eclogue – The Gift – First Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Second Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Third Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Fourth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Fifth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Sixth Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – Seventh Essay on Linguistic Disobedience – The Shed – Through Vertical Blinds – The Trial – The Semiotics of a Truck Overturned in Fog – On the Rejection of the Term "Property" for This Place – The Crest – Hay Bale Collected Off Road – Lighting the Bushman Fire Before the Others Rise – Boustrophedon – The Burning of the Hay Stacks – Salt Lesson – Chainsaw – Against Depression – The Early Onset of Darkness – Land Leased Back to Themselves – Miracle at New Norcia – Imitations of Sign and Subjectivity in York – The View – Location Triggers – Across the Gravel Wastes – Mulga Parrots – Flight – The Killing Tree – Removing the Fox Baits – Cold – Aftershocks – Liminal Devotional – Index of Titles and First Lines. Subjects; Australian poetry – 20th-21st centuries. English poetry – 20th-21st centuries. Australia – Poetry. Agriculture. Landscapes. Solitude.
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