The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected PoemsMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005 - 166 pagina's We are always in the middle of life, looking forwards and backwards; the only movement we can make to defy physics and history is the journey of the spirit. The Ishtar Gate, a ceremonial gate from the palace of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon, reconstructed and housed in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, is my personal symbol for the merging of ancient and modern culture, the old goddess-centred religions and the scholarly, rational West. So wrote Diana Brebner of the book she planned to write. Though cancer claimed her life before she could complete this project, she wrote some thirty poems towards it.Here is a poet in extreme control of her craft: the aesthetic refinement, the musicality of language, the spiritual vision, and the playfulness that drew readers to Brebner's previous award-winning books - Radiant Life Forms, The Golden Lotus, and Flora & Fauna - resonate with even greater force in her last poems. |
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... 16 The Radiant Lady Poems 17 THE GOLDEN LOTUS Open among the Lilies 25 The Golden Lotus 26 Karuna 30 Head of a Girl 36 The Perfect Garden 51 Eleven Paintings by Mary Pratt 52 FLORA & FAUNA Flora & Fauna 73 The Black Swan.
... 16 The Radiant Lady Poems 17 THE GOLDEN LOTUS Open among the Lilies 25 The Golden Lotus 26 Karuna 30 Head of a Girl 36 The Perfect Garden 51 Eleven Paintings by Mary Pratt 52 FLORA & FAUNA Flora & Fauna 73 The Black Swan.
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... Swan 74 Poison Dart Frogs 80 The Green Canoe 84 Facing Buddha 86 Prints of Love 87 Pictures of an Eclipse 88 Polycarbon Butterfly Unfurled 90 The Pictures of My Heart 92 At the ... Swans 133 Listening to Winterreise 135 A Stranger vi.
... Swan 74 Poison Dart Frogs 80 The Green Canoe 84 Facing Buddha 86 Prints of Love 87 Pictures of an Eclipse 88 Polycarbon Butterfly Unfurled 90 The Pictures of My Heart 92 At the ... Swans 133 Listening to Winterreise 135 A Stranger vi.
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Last and Selected Poems Diana Brebner Stephanie Bolster. The Variable Swans 133 Listening to Winterreise 135 A Stranger 137 The Isis Rattle 138 Access the Calm Serene 139 Concern for My Soul 141 Karma's Girls 142 Servant of the Muse 143 ...
Last and Selected Poems Diana Brebner Stephanie Bolster. The Variable Swans 133 Listening to Winterreise 135 A Stranger 137 The Isis Rattle 138 Access the Calm Serene 139 Concern for My Soul 141 Karma's Girls 142 Servant of the Muse 143 ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Snow Angels | 3 |
Radiant Life Forms | 9 |
What is Homeless in Me and Sightless | 15 |
Open among the Lilies | 25 |
Head of a Girl | 36 |
The Perfect Garden | 51 |
Flora Fauna | 73 |
Poison Dart Frogs | 80 |
The Trout | 109 |
For the Poet Who Told Me to Think Less | 116 |
Morning on the Guitar | 122 |
Variation on John Thompsons Ghazal | 128 |
The Variable Swans | 133 |
Access the Calm Serene | 139 |
Our Kate | 145 |
Silence II | 151 |
Facing Buddha | 86 |
The Pictures of My Heart | 92 |
The Blue Light of the Neutron Pool | 102 |
Ideas on Order | 157 |
Acknowledgments | 165 |
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alive beautiful believe bird blood blue bodies Bramer bright calm Canadian Poets canoe Catherina Catherina Bolnes child dance dark daughter David Solway dead death Delft Diana Brebner door dreams earth eternal everything eyes Fabritius feel myself explode floating Flora & Fauna forever George Elliott Clarke Gerald Lampert Award girl Golden Lotus green hands head heart heavens holy hurt imagination Ishtar Gate Jan Vermeer John Barton Joseph Brodsky Karuna League of Canadian light lilies listen living look Mauritshuis memory mother move never no-one numbered oranges pain paint painter peace pears perfect Pine Siskin poems poetry quiet RADIANT LADY RADIANT LIFE FORMS remember river rooms you wait Sandhill Crane Siskin SNOW ANGELS SPARROW DRAWER stars Stephanie Bolster survive swans Sylvia Plath tell things trout voice woman women words writing yellow