
Shadow and Refrain
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Shadow and Refrain presses on, less coyly, with similar themes and a tenacious syntax that gorgeously persists until it has secured its quarry, the long sentences - sometimes running through several stanzas - asking to be read aloud to be secured. As the poet insists, 'These poems are designed to be read using the mouth' - for sensation even if not for fully voiced sound. This book, like the first, is troubled by the difficulty of frank expression in the more private nooks of day-to-day life, and is driven to find curious routes into the centres of experiences that resist simpler articulation. Some poems are imagined addresses to inaccessible friends, or engagements with significant places and objects. Intimacy is repeatedly probed, the processes by which it can be attained and lost, the preoccupations it brings with it and leaves behind.
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- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- As Though to an Old Friend (I)
- With Increasing Agitation
- As Though to an Old Friend (II)
- Consolation (No. 7)
- Consolation (No. 8)
- About Consolations
- As Though to an Old Friend (III)
- Night Thoughts (I)
- Night Thoughts (II)
- Plain Speaking
- Portions and Parcels
- On the Waterfront
- Adjustment (I)
- Hawaiian Fragment
- As Though to a Childhood Friend (I)
- On Escalators (I)
- On Escalators (II)
- As Though to an Old Friend (IV)
- As Though to Robert Louis Stevenson
- Emendation
- As Though to an Old Friend (V)
- A Provocation
- Two Fragments from Tibullus
- Adjustment (II)
- The Shower Scene
- As Though to a Childhood Friend (II)
- As Though to an Old Friend (VI)
- Misgivings
- Indications
- Uncertain Light
- Over and Over
- Still Life with Mirrors
- Ivy Walls
- Fancypiece (I)
- A Spell to Lure Apollo
- The Vine
- A Willow
- Heron Work
- Heron Carriage
- Lilac or Buddleia
- Tropicbirds
- Encounters with the Fauna
- On Nature
- Castigation (I)
- Castigation (II)
- Castigation (III)
- Castigation (IV)
- Paper Burning
- The Wai'anae Range
- Mist of Ka'ala
- Two Passages from Janus Secundus (1511-1536)
- In the Lower Church of S. Ponziano, Spoleto
- A Letter of Advice
- Sentiment
- Modification
- Above Water
- At the Clunch Pit Alone
- These Foolish Things
- Hwasong
- Motivations
- Watching Snow
- On the Grasshopper in my Fennel
- Notes Toward a Fantasy
- Assisi: After D'Annunzio
- Shame, Shame, Shame
- Terms and Conditions
- Plague-Year Epistle
- Trifle to O
- Fancypiece (II)
- Song of My Peas
- Ferrets
- Micro-Adjustment
- Tumbles in the Slough
- The Drains in This House
- Consolation (No. 9)
- The Moselle: After Ausonius
- Fancypiece (III)
- Notes
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