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  • Author:agent Rodney Hall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hall-rodney
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 The Owner of My Face : New and Selected Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Paper Bark Press , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Foreword, John Kinsella , single work column (p. 5-7)
"A man's life, viewed vulnerably naked, is" Reflecting on the Male of the Speciesi"A man's life is laid out vulnerably naked in", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 19-20)
Note: With first line: A man's life, viewed vulnerably naked, is
Missing Personi"My father died when I was six months old and people started right in", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 21-22)
Kyrie "They have gone down now into themselves" Introitusi"They have gone down now", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 23)
A Coastal Reqiuem, Rodney Hall , sequence poetry (p. 23-28)
Gloriai"For half a mile the scales of phosphorus float", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 24)
Credo "Once dead so I believe" Lachrymosai"Once dead", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 25)
Sanctusi"A cloud is etched in wrinkles on my empty hand", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 26)
Benedictusi"We name the island Water and the mountain Wind", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 27)
Agnus Deii"(My gumboots rubberstamp the mud with moons and cubes of air)", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 28)
The Climberi"Here I stand, the rainstorm", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
Rat's Eyei"Up from the oranged evening river,", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 35)
Youth-Manhood-Middle Agei"These aren't the hands I had ten years ago,", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 36)
First Life Cyclei"See where enlightenment of spirit", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 37-38)
Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope : Fragments of Memory, Rodney Hall , sequence poetry (p. 37-51)
Second Life Cyclei"The holy one", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 39-40)
Third Life Cyclei"She has heavy eyelids, plaited hair,", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 41-43)
Fourth Life Cyclei"Carve my head from cedar wood", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 44-47)
Death in Publici"The summerhouse--too lavish anyhow--", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 48-49)
Death in Privatei"The goddess sang", Rodney Hall , single work poetry (p. 50-51)
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