Glass Rooster
Published on 18. May 2015
96 pages
978-1-77558-803-0 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in The Glass Rooster explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures--from natural ecosystems to cities and even to outer space. Our guide on this journey is a glass rooster--observer of stars and lover of hens--who first popped up in Janis Freegard's poetry years ago and wanders unchecked through the book. Each of the eight sections (or "echo-systems") in the book--the Damp Places, Forest, Cityscape, the Alpine Zone, Space, Home & Garden, Underground, and In the Desert--is introduced by a triolet: a French poetic form with repeated lines. Other poems are arranged in pairs, each echoing something about the other, whether desert plants, the presence of balloons, or the dangers of working in a mine. The result is a tremendous, riotous exploration of an interconnected world.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication and copyright
- Contents
- The Damp Places
- Flotsam
- The Tide Rises at the Gallery
- Mouth
- Jumping Ship
- Among the Mangroves
- Hothouse
- Albatross
- Tables
- Forest
- Cento
- Not
- Godfather
- Forest Song
- After the Reception
- Baba Yaga
- Lichen Quartet
- Trinity
- Cityscape
- Sunrise
- Pluck
- Lipstick Kisses
- Arohata
- Antirrealismos
- Exhibition
- Various Annunciations
- Telescope
- The Alpine Zone
- Avalanche
- Himalayas
- Altitude
- Dimorphism
- Rarotonga
- Dear Peter, Please Be Advised
- Speaking of the Balloonist
- At the Window
- Space
- Psychosis Chamber of the Oracle
- The Astronauts
- Moldavite
- Cometary Panspermia
- Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland
- Reykjavík
- Beside the Laughing Kitchen
- Neutrinos
- Home and Garden
- La Fée Verte
- When You're Not Here
- House
- Room
- Daisies
- Vase
- Ectoplasm
- Entropy
- Underground
- Genii Cucullati
- Occlusion
- Cueva de los Cristales
- Elegy
- Mt Isa
- Sand Puppy
- Geysir
- Rachel de Beer
- In the Desert
- Welwitschia
- Cactus
- Vacation
- Desert Flowers
- Riddle
- Desert Song
- Mummy
- Sphinx
- Notes and acknowledgements
