xxiii, 227 pages ; 22 cm.

text

unmediated

volume

1.The Rebel Angel -- From The Imitator -- Toward Abstraction / Possibly a Gull's Wing -- From The Rumour -- Mondrian: Light Breaks upon the Grail -- Sibyl -- Berowra Waters -- Sonnets to Be Written from Prison -- Some More Experiences -- The Beautiful Season -- The Crossing -- A New Legend -- The Gh...

No River, No Death -- Ode on Beckett's Death -- Waving to Hart Crane -- Folk Song -- Rock Carving with Kevin Gilbert -- Ambivalence -- On the Rock -- Cornflowers -- The Kingfisher -- Meshing Bends in the Light -- The Language of Oysters -- Drum of Fire -- The Stone Curlew -- Arctic Jaeger -- The Sou...

The Peach-faced Finches of Madagascar -- The Dollarbird -- The Goldfinches of Baghdad -- Fishing in a Landscape for Love -- The First Chance Was the Last -- Elegy from Balmoral Beach -- Praise and Its Shadow -- Death of a Cat -- The Whitebait -- Joseph Cornell's Tools -- Looking into a Bowerbird's E...