God was there, but not in the details; largely abstract, the language, when concrete at all, tended to the general rather than the specific. [...] Yet her perverse playfulness was such that one wonders if she chose this path in protest – the “traditional” as a daring opposition to the norm of free verse – and to ensure the marginality that granted her indepen- dence and privacy. [...] Though she admitted, “[T]he chil- dren and marriage and all the other things that I do are a cover for what I really do; what I really do is write and think most of the time,” she also claimed to feel “very integrated. [...] And in the shaped holes we find: remains, some celestial parts, and a last message, desperate, marked in the snow. [...] My loved one, of all women I have found, you are the yellow lily as it floats on the pond, a wet green stone, the white egg in the grass where this crane walks, listening to the river.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes poems previously published in Radiant life forms, The golden lotus and Flora & fauna Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773574441 9780773528352
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.B688
- LCCN Item number
- I84 2005eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 166 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00212102 (OCoLC)226374729 (CaOOCEL)420151
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- The Ishtar Gate 2
- Arc 11
- The New Quarterly Books in Canada 12
- The New Quarterly 13
- The Ishtar Gate Saffron Walden Starry Messen- ger Flora Fauna 15
- Birds in Canada 27
- Eastern Hardwood Forest 28
- The Forest 29
- Stilleven 61
- Head of a Girl 65
- The Goldfinch 65
- Phyllobates terribilis 99
- Less Than One 174
- Inferno The Government of the Tongue 177
