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The Lighthouse Keeper single work   poetry   "Beyond the jagged graph of that distant point"
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Lighthouse Keeper
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Notes

  • Dedication: for Roxy
  • Epigraph: The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant/ whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth,/ whose large blind leaves grow even without light. - Pablo Neruda
  • AustLit note: The shipwreck referred to in this poem is the Spanish ship Salvador that sank on 31 August 1812 in Maldonado Bay, Uruguay.

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Last amended 29 Oct 2007 10:00:44
Subjects:
  • c
    Uruguay,
    c
    South America, Americas,
  • Coast,
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