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Title

Go leaving strange : poems / Patrick Lane.

Author

Lane, Patrick.

Publication

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

117 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This new collection from the celebrated poet Patrick Lane is filled with poems that explore the darker side of human consciousness and desire. A man kills his six-year-old child in "Weeds." An addict strives to keep ahead of death in "Smack." But amid this bleak landscape of pity and regret, there is also redemption and hope, life and beauty - in the wisteria seed that "shines between the folded legs of the pod, demure, waiting for spring ..." or in the "blue flare" of an "old blacksmith tempering iron in dust and fire."" "Go Leaving Strange marks a departure from the tightly wound lyrics of Lane's recent books and a return to the loose rhythms, long lines and Whitmanesque expansiveness of his earlier work."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

Howl -- Temper -- Lilies -- The war -- Weeds -- Nails -- Shingle -- Choices -- My father's watch -- Tumbling mustard -- Infidelity -- Black diamonds -- Cut-throat -- Coyote -- The wild self -- The spoon -- That cold blue morning -- Wolf -- Things -- Dwarf crested male ferns -- The mallard thought -- Definitions -- Breakup -- Bitter -- The dwarf -- First lessons -- Dead baby -- Same old, same old -- Sink blood -- Uncle Jack -- Backwards -- Sweet -- After -- Ash -- Say -- Fathers -- She says -- Chickens and vodka -- Campbell's mushroom soup -- Sign language -- Whiskeyjack -- Fight -- Dogs -- Range -- Priorities -- Faceless -- Curse -- Business -- Women -- The working life -- Digging ditches -- Match stick -- Ptarmigan -- Leaving Old Hazelton -- Johnny -- Kids and coke -- In due season we shall reap, if we faint not -- Starlings -- Trying -- Hare-lip -- Smack -- Sorrow -- Bent -- Chevys & Fords -- Hard days and nights -- You walk in without words -- Half-hearted moon -- Wildfire -- Tight smoke -- His own sweet own -- The sorrow-line -- Crying time again -- Hurting song -- Go leaving strange -- Going bad -- The bush -- Beauty -- What you do love -- Profane -- Breaking -- Death -- Stiletto -- Forgiveness -- The truth.

ISBN

1550173286

LCCN

2004426803

OCLC

• 54461041
• ocm54461041
• SCSB-5224198

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries