The culmination of decades of effort, Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers is a four-part poetic journey that explores narrative duplicity, familial and romantic relationships, the correlation between love, sin and life, and finally, the notion that human life cannot be explained or saved. In this fourth and final volume of the sonnet sequence, Just Beneath Your Skin, the Dark Begins, the exiled poet adopts the role of the skeptic, calling into question religion and science, myth and history. Truth is subjective, beauty cannot be articulated, and redemption rests in the acceptance of one's end. In this bleak, unfathomable, unknowable and inexpressible world, the exile's struggles to live, to love, and to find meaning are bitterly honest and intimately familiar. With endlessly varying sonnets ranging from the surreal to the straightforward, the mythic to the narrative, this volume of The Exile's Papers unequivocally proves Clifford's mastery of poetic form.--Publisher's description.
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- C811/.54
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- 22
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780889843905 9780889848344
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- PR9199.3.C535
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- E94 2007 v4eb
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- 1 electronic text (174 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00236921 (OCoLC)957131858 (CaOOCEL)476386
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- Just beneath your skin, the dark begins
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Table of Contents
- 1965 1966 1967 1967 1967 1972 1976 1979 1996 2004 pql 2006 pql 2007 pql 2009 pql 2011 pql 2009 2009 4
- Wait 7
- Nowness. Heredom. 9
- The Way the Field Lies 15
- One Sizeable H-Bomb Would Turn Iowa into a Big Pot 20
- A Common Child of Miltons 30
- The Bad Child Talks to God 31
- The Child Learns to Live in the Mothers House 52
- The War Always the War 63
- The Exile Comes Home 72
- Noumenons Immanence 79
- The Apiary in the Mind 82
- Terror the Darkness and the Way Lost 86
- Something Stops Me on the Way 93
- Venus at the Equinox 94
- Ahasuerus 95
- Hafez Sonnets 96
- 100 102
- 101 103
- 102 104
- Fossil-Longing 104
- 103 105
- 104 106
- 105 107
- The Dark Season 107
- 106 108
- 107 109
- 108 110
- 109 111
- 110 112
- 111 113
- 112 114
- 113 115
- 114 116
- Alternate String Theory 116
- 115 117
- 116 118
- 117 119
- Wolf Logic 119
- 118 120
- 119 121
- 120 122
- 121 123
- 122 124
- Nearing Solstice the Stage Is Ready 124
- 123 125
- 124 126
- 125 127
- 126 128
- 127 129
- 128 130
- Such Gifts as We Afford Forgetting 130
- 129 131
- 130 132
- 131 133
- 132 134
- 133 135
- 134 136
- 135 137
- 136 138
- 137 139
- 138 140
- 139 141
- 140 142
- The Circus Comes to Town 142
- 141 143
- 142 144
- 143 145
- 144 146
- 145 147
- Christmas in Pefferlaw 147
- 146 148
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- 149 151
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- 154 156
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- 162 164
- 163 165
- 164 166
- Solstice Grand Manan 166
- 165 167
- 166 168
- 167 169
- 168 170
- 169 171
- A Festive Gravity Nudge Out Oort Cloud Way 171
- 170 172
- 171 173
- This Feast 173
- 172 174
- 174 176
- 175 177
- 1965 177
