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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 The City of the Tree
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Je sais tres bien que c'est un mirage. On ne me tromps pas, moi! Mais s'il me plait, a moi, de m'enfoncer vers un mirage? S'il me plait, a moi, d'esperer? S'il me plait d'aimer cette ville crenelee et toute pavoisee de soleil? - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Terre des Hommes.
  • Author's Preface: It is now some years since the publication of A Tree at the Gate and I have the pleasure of offering another series of poems connected with the tree. The tolerant and civilized city depicted in the first piece has clearly been traced and transferred from ancient Athens, and may be consered to be linked to the city of Callimachus mentioned in two of the later poems....
  • Dedication: For Ada and Michael

Contents

* Contents derived from the South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,:Taurus Publishing Co. , 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The City of the Treei"By the besieged gate straggles the great primordial tree", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 11-12)
Atalantai"Tall young marble", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 13)
Terpander's Songi"humble bee sees heaven", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 14)
Penelope's Songi"Drink the surging ocean sky", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 15)
Before the Barbariansi"the gross city sags in a million", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 17)
Barba Yannis of Carltoni"Almost abducted by the traction of eternity", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Landing, 1949i"At last the life gangway bumps across the void", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 21)
Patchwork Upi"day", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 24)
Road to Warrandytei"somewhere the satin city", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 25)
Dandenong Dreami"before the blue hills", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 26)
Portsea Soaringi"of the world's beginning", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 27)
Hunter in the Surfi"soon", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 28)
Mirror Dromanai"do you remember", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 29)
At Mornington Beachi"Our bodies swirl around the beach,", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 30)
Hawkesburyi"on the way to the Hawkesbury River", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 31)
Last Sunrisei"the last sunrise must stop and burn", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 33)
Yesterday We Chosei"yesterday in the tremulous murmur", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 34)
Dream of a Late Attic Poeti"hierophant I athwart", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 38)
Starei"sometimes still", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 39)
Unchiselled Childi"unchiselled child my vein of pain", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 40)
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