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In this extraordinary debut collection, David Hamilton revitalises and extends American pastoral writing with an uncanny ability to conjure memories of childhood and moments of spiritual and physical encounter. His gift lies in combining these themes of discovery with a lyrical intelligence never far from natural speech, all delivered with profound sensitivity for people, place and natural beauty.
List of contents
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- Acknowledgments
- Lovesong from the Marshes
- For Rebecca
- To a Later Autumn
- "Go, Little Book"
- Poem Ending with Lines from an Obscure Memoir
- Gaudy Fox
- Our Oldest Oath
- Not at All Byzantine
- "The Edge Is What I Have"
- Festival
- After Lagamon
- Slender Batons
- The Ballad of Bender Sutton
- His Armory Show, Nights of 1958
- Van Gogh Dropped
- After Claes Oldenburg
- Homage to Alfred Montgomery, Corn Painter
- On the Last Days of Fast Time
- Neither Venice Nor Belmont
- Fable
- Charlie Asked
- Before the Jugs in Soaked Burlap, Before the Water
- Flagging for Alfatox in a Middle Field
- Kindnesses
- Noctua
- Many Moons
- Marginalia Found in a Secondhand Catullus
- Wulf and Eadwacer
- From the Old English Riddles
- Coda
- Serranilla of Aranjuéz
- The Arab-Andalucian Lover and His Love
- Ossabaw
- Dust
- The Blue He Seized
- Looking for Mother
- Ciao
- Half Music, Half Murmur
- Popular Song for a Popular Season
- Twenty Ways To Say Snow
- Serranilla of Barranquilla
- Like Smoke
- Beige and Avocado
- What You Can Get Away With
- Too Trillium
- Oriole
- Blinded
- Papaver
- From a Journal
- The Secret Lives of Trees
- Foucault Would Have Said
- After Maillol
- Bound Each to Each
- Anasazi Baskets
- On Never Ending with . . .
- Poison, a partially found poem
- An American Suite
- For Coyote, Song and Lament
- The Collector
- Haiku Composed During a Lecture
About the author
After retirement as a transplant surgeon in Glasgow, and moving to St Andrews, he has written extensively on the history of golf and medicine,
