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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782200503321

Autore

Brebner Diana <1956->

Titolo

The Ishtar Gate [[electronic resource] ] : last and selected poems / / Diana Brebner ; edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Bolster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-7735-7444-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Altri autori (Persone)

BolsterStephanie

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

POETRY / Canadian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes poems previously published in Radiant life forms, The golden lotus and Flora & fauna.

Nota di contenuto

""contents""; ""considered passion: the poetry of diana brebner""; ""snow angels""; ""immolation""; ""the children in that country""; ""awake in the morning room, newly painted""; ""you , of all white women i have loved""; ""radiant life forms""; ""the sparrow drawer""; ""what is homeless in me, and sightless""; ""desire, mother and child""; ""the radiant lady poems""; ""open among the lilies""; ""the golden lotus""; ""karuna""; ""head of a girl""; ""the perfect garden""; ""eleven paintings by mary pratt""; ""flora & fauna""; ""the black swan""; ""poison dart frogs""; ""the green canoe""

""facing buddha""""prints of love""; ""pictures of an eclipse""; ""polycarbon butterfly unfurled""; ""the pictures of my heart""; ""at the schwarzschild radius""; ""the blue light of the neutron pool""; ""the trout""; ""my hope""; ""porthole""; ""port""; ""for the poet who told me to think less and feel more""; ""frozen""; ""waiting""; ""morning on the guitar""; ""the bridge""; ""detonation / notation""; ""variation on john thompson�s ghazal xxxviii""; ""the narrow lens""; ""venus velvet 6557 HB""; ""the variable swans""; ""listening to winterreise""; ""a stranger""; ""the isis rattle""

""access the calm serene""""concern for my soul""; ""karma�s girls""; ""servant of the muse""; ""gaia reclining""; ""our kate""; ""orange marmalade, keiller recipe""; ""slicing orange sink im�s kitchen""; ""blood oranges""; ""silence""; ""silence ii""; ""the nature of weapons""; ""that blue is allinarush""; ""the trout in the holy well: ideas on order &



poetry""; ""acknowledgments""