Along with the finest pieces from his three previous books, often in revised form, The Tongues of Earth includes 20 new poems. Known as a writer of place, in The Tongues of Earth Abley extends his range over time and history. These poems are distinguished by their combination of clarity and grace, high intelligence and deep feeling. Poems such as “Mother and Son”, “Labrador” and “Glasburyon” are the work of a literary artist with few peers in Canada. To those who have known Abley only as a prose writer, this book will come as a revelation. Endorsed by Julie Bruck, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2012.
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- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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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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- 9781550506105 9781550506112
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- PR9199.3.A165
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- T66 2015eb
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- 1 electronic text (115 pages)
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- Regina, Saskatchewan
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Front Matter 2
- Title Page 4
- Book & Copyright Information 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Part One 10
- As If 12
- Chauvet 13
- Labrador 14
- Birth 15
- Forget Me Not 16
- The Almost Island 17
- White on White 18
- Deep Gold 19
- Anonymous, Undated 22
- In Girona Cathedral 23
- Paradise 24
- A View of Delft 25
- Fire 27
- Poppy Men 28
- The Next 29
- A Map of Grief 30
- The Guangzhou Engineering Student: A Letter 34
- Part Two 36
- A Wooden Alphabet 38
- Learning to Read 39
- Flight 40
- Down 41
- Into Thin Air 42
- Garefowl 45
- A Labrador Duck 48
- Eurycea Tridentifera 50
- One Night 51
- Egret Song 52
- One Swallow 53
- Blind, Electric 54
- Zoo 55
- Proofs of Loss 56
- K’tunaxa 58
- Part Three 60
- Mother and Son 62
- After Pinocchio 63
- …Perlis, Chamba, Tannu Tuva… 71
- The Fingerprint 71
- Oxford Sonata 72
- Expecting 73
- White Nights 75
- Small Night Music 76
- The Not Quite Great 77
- Montreal 78
- At Midnight 80
- Hard on You 81
- Again 82
- Vas Elegy 83
- Cancer 84
- Into the Woods 85
- In Return 86
- Part Four 88
- Efenechtyd 90
- Radnorshire 91
- Goodsoil 92
- The Floating World 94
- Driving West From Milk River 95
- Kicking Down Mount Rundle 96
- In a Desert 97
- Gloria (from Asian Mass) 98
- Credo (from Asian Mass) 105
- Amdo, 1938 109
- Lhasa, 1950 110
- Tibet, 1959 – 112
- Glasburyon 115
- Some notes on the poems 122
- Acknowledgements 126
- About the Author 128
