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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813023003321

Autore

Abley Mark

Titolo

The Silver Palace Restaurant / / Mark Abley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-7735-7451-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 91 p. ; ; 19 cm

Collana

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Disciplina

811/.54

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Part One -- After Pinocchio -- Part Two -- The Fingerprint -- Blind, Electric -- Kootenai -- Kicking Down the Mountain -- Letter from the Rockies -- A Prince -- In a Glove of Time -- Red Letter -- Again -- Winter Quintet -- White on White -- A Key that Opens on the Night -- Vas Elegy -- Cancer -- Dragons -- In Saskatoon the Ghosts -- One Night -- Part Three -- Food: A Travelling Quartet -- Part Four -- The Guangzhou Engineering Student: A Letter -- Dominion -- Gaspésie -- Thistle Sermon -- To the Editors -- The Traveller in Italy -- Kings of Montreal -- A Missing Statue -- Speaking Personally -- Clouded Sulphur -- You Know Her Kind -- Oxford Sonata -- Flight -- The Ruff -- A Labrador Duck -- Eurycea Tridentifera -- Birth -- Edgewise -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

A graceful and humane collection of poems. While its themes stretch from the personal to the political and environmental, its settings range equally widely, both within Canada and beyond.