Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781897231593 9781926845074
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.S23
- LCCN Item number
- P28 2009eb
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- DLC
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- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (81 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00224895 (OCoLC)659391965 (CaOOCEL)434686
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- NLC
Table of Contents
- PAUSE FOR BREATH 1
- I. A Place of Ruin 11
- In the Middle of the Night 13 13
- Wake 14 14
- A.D. 2007 15 15
- The Star 16 16
- Screens 18 18
- Breakfast and Morning Paper 20 20
- A Prayer for Prayer 21 21
- Dry Spring 22 22
- Song 23 23
- Pent 24 24
- As a storm-lopped tree 25 25
- Then 26 26
- Gate 27 27
- After the Storm 28 28
- II. Heat of the Immediate 29
- Brink 31 31
- Once was full summer 32 32
- Lull 33 33
- To the Lookout 34 34
- Echoes in November 35 35
- Tenacious 36 36
- Munificent 37 37
- Last of December 38 38
- Minus 20 39 39
- Flash 40 40
- A Splinter 42 42
- In an Evening Window 44 44
- Out Like a Lion 45 45
- Blowing the Fluff Away 46 46
- Mile End, April into June 47 47
- 51
- Handful 53 53
- Lowly 54 54
- Clock Song 56 56
- Detritus 58 58
- In a Wink 60 60
- Ho Hum 61 61
- Gesundheit 62 62
- View from the Treadmill 64 64
- Reminder 66 66
- To the power of n 67 67
- Poem on Fatherâ„¢s Day 68 68
- Parents 70 70
- Are you serious? 71 71
- Run With It 72 72
- Messenger 73 73
- Getting On 74 74
- Seen from a Moving Train 75 75
- The Well 76 76
- Pause for Breath 77 77
- A Snow Fence 78 78
- Span 79 79
- Peaks 80 80
- Brush 81 81
