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Notes
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Dedication: for my son Anthony
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Epigraph: Soon after Matsuo Basho set out on one of his recorded travels he came upon an abandoned child on the bank of the Fuji River. Knowing such was the custom in hard times Basho resolved his grief by determining that as terrible as the act was it must be 'Heaven's will'. He gave the child what food he had and before moving on wrote: Poets who sang of monkey's wailing: / How would they feel about this child abandoned / In the Autumn wind?
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Includes a sequence of nine numbered poems under the title Polarized Light.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:Makar Press
, 1978 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Untitledi"Dune grass", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Untitledi"The axe is still-", single work poetry (p. 5)
- Untitledi"Beginning", single work poetry (p. 6)
- Untitledi"First rain", single work poetry (p. 7)
- Untitledi"Wandering between door", single work poetry (p. 8)
- Untitledi"Cattle trails", single work poetry (p. 9)
- Untitledi"Cold wind", single work poetry (p. 10)
- Untitledi"Wet hitch-hiker's plea", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Untitledi"Across the screen", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Untitledi"After three weeks of rain", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Untitledi"My youth has gone -", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Untitledi"Pregnant again ...", single work poetry (p. 13)
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Untitledi"whoever said marriage",
single work
poetry
(p. 14)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 1 of nine.
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Untitledi"whoever said marriage",
single work
poetry
(p. 15)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 2 of nine
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Untitledi"brought home",
single work
poetry
(p. 16)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 3 of nine
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Untitledi"whoever said",
single work
poetry
(p. 17)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 4 of nine
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Untitledi"in humid heat",
single work
poetry
(p. 18)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 5 of nine
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Untitledi"In search of emptiness",
single work
poetry
(p. 19)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 6 of nine
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Untitledi"today he said goodbye",
single work
poetry
(p. 20-21)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 7 of nine
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Untitledi"feeling the hunger -",
single work
poetry
(p. 22)
Section: Polarized Light
Note: Poem 8 of nine
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 6 no. 3 1978; (p. 124-125)
— Review of Life Death and Some Words About Them 1978 selected work poetry ; On Sparse Brush 1978 selected work poetry ; The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes 1978 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1978
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 6 no. 3 1978; (p. 124-125)
— Review of Life Death and Some Words About Them 1978 selected work poetry ; On Sparse Brush 1978 selected work poetry ; The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes 1978 selected work poetry
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