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Notes
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Book launched at Gleebooks, Sydney by Alan Gould on 6 June 2001.
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The contents are presented in five sections with the following headings: Shells, Simples, Floating the Woman, Prayers and Devotions, and A Christmas Letter to My Father.
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Dedication:
for David Joseph Deutch b.1990
and David Anthony Deutch (1948-1998) In memoriam.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Rose Bay,
Sydney Eastern Harbourside,
Sydney Eastern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Brandl and Schlesinger
, 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Photo of Home from Homei"I used to leave this granite house", single work poetry (p. 13)
- New Games New Gamei"The day mother phoned you at the store", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Burni"First sunburn. Five-year-old flesh", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- Sixteeni"When my forehead", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Eddiei"Travelling salesman for Hickock belts,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Shellsi"A hundred billion locusts", single work poetry (p. 20-22)
- The Stadiumi"The East St Louis stadium,", single work poetry (p. 23-25)
- Vincent's Complainti"At Arles, where the Rhone", single work poetry (p. 26)
- The Teenager Talks to the Virgini"Mary, she floats in her accustomed", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Opheliai"Raped at knifepoint by a German tourist", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Poweri"When the third one hit, my jaw seized,", single work poetry (p. 30-31)
- The Cold the Homeless Feeli"The river they enter at night", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Simples, single work prose (p. 33-42)
- Floating the Womani"It isn't done with wires", single work poetry (p. 45)
- Snake Charmeri"Black-haired, green eyed,", single work poetry (p. 46-48)
- Love Poemi"Give me silence, the only place", single work poetry (p. 49)
- Thomas's Complainti"It isn't as if I really seriously doubted", single work poetry (p. 50)
- Catullus XXXIIi"Elegant, piquant Ipsithilla,", Richard Deutch (translator) single work poetry (p. 51)
- Virgil: The Second Eclogue "The shepherd Corydon burned for handsome Alexis," Eclogue IIi"Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin,", Richard Deutch (translator) single work poetry (p. 52-55)
- Poem So an Old Love Can Sign Off At Lasti"This poem is dead.", single work poetry (p. 56-57)
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Awards
- 2001 winner Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award (USA)
- 2001 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
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