The afterlife of trees [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Bartlett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782707503321
• Autore: Bartlett Brian <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-85834-3; 9786612858345; 0-7735-6812-3
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 100 p
• Collana: The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: Nature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- A Box for Small Births -- Listening on the Back Steps -- How Acupuncture Is Like Poetry -- Lost Footnote from an Essay on Rhythm -- Shuffles -- Two for the Winds -- Under the Old Roof -- The Colours at McCormack’s Beach -- Sloth Surprises -- The Afterlife of Trees -- A Toss of Cones -- A Lake Named After My Ancestors -- The Basement that Became a Garden -- Gardening Until Dark -- Graveyard Haiku -- Tree Trilogy -- Hawthornden Improvisations -- Hawthornden Improvisations -- A World of Counting -- Work at Twenty-One -- Three Windows -- After the Age of Parties -- Every Lion Until Now -- A Glosa for Joshua -- Sick for the New Millennium -- Diner in a Storm -- Three Tales of Halifax -- Atlas, We Laughed -- Foot-doctor for the Homeless -- The Sonographer -- Talking to the Birds -- Talking to the Birds -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost,/and first and last are/utterly themselves,/fuller and finer than any letter or number,/any 7 or T. Their fragmentary afterlife goes on/in a guitar's body and a hockey stick, in the beaked faces/up a totem pole and the stake through a vampire's heart,/in a fragrant cheese-board, a Welsh love-spoon,/a sweat-stained axe handle, a giant green dragonfly suspended from the ceiling with twine,/in the spellbinding shapechanging/behind ; a glass woodstove-door.