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Summary
Bringing together all of the poems from Eric Ormsbys five previous collections Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems, Coastlines, For a Modest God, Araby, and Daybreak at the Strait, as well as additional new poems -- this volume collects the work of one of the most important poets writing in Canada today or elsewhere. Beautifully crafted, both complex and delicate, intelligent, sensuous and often very funny, these are poems to return to repeatedly. Indeed, they demand it the rhythm and humour and form will draw you in, and call you to reopen the book long after you might have thought yourself finished with it. Approach it randomly, if you must: there are riches on every page, the sparkle and dance and play of language, necessary reading for all who love fine poetry.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 13 |
| Bavarian Shrine and other poems (1990) | |
| Starfish | p. 17 |
| Lazarus in Skins | p. 18 |
| Railyard in Winter | p. 19 |
| Bavarian Shrine | p. 20 |
| Forgetful Lazarus | p. 22 |
| Cover the Statues | p. 23 |
| Lazarus and Basements | p. 24 |
| Fetish | p. 25 |
| Lazarus in Sumatra | p. 27 |
| Rites de Passage | p. 28 |
| Lazarus Listens | p. 29 |
| Skunk Cabbage | p. 30 |
| Foundry | p. 31 |
| Moths at Nightfall | p. 32 |
| Precious Vials | p. 33 |
| Wood Fungus | p. 35 |
| Bee Balm | p. 36 |
| Lichens | p. 37 |
| Spiders | p. 38 |
| Statues and Mannequins | p. 40 |
| December | p. 45 |
| Craneworld | p. 46 |
| River Plants | p. 47 |
| White Waterlilies | p. 47 |
| Bullhead Lily | p. 48 |
| Pickerelweed | p. 49 |
| Conch-Shell | p. 50 |
| Fingernails | p. 52 |
| Ears | p. 53 |
| Nose | p. 55 |
| My Mother in Old Age | p. 56 |
| Coastlines (1992) | |
| A Florida Childhood | |
| Horseshoe Crab | p. 59 |
| My First Beach | p. 60 |
| Remembrance | p. 62 |
| Adages of a Grandmother | p. 63 |
| Grackle | p. 65 |
| A Florida Childhood | p. 66 |
| Live Oak, with Bromeliads | p. 67 |
| Fragrances | p. 68 |
| Florida Bay | p. 69 |
| The Way North | |
| Highway Grasses | p. 72 |
| Savannahs | p. 73 |
| Cellar | p. 74 |
| Mullein | p. 75 |
| Childhood House | p. 77 |
| Old Photographs of Children | p. 78 |
| Garter Snake | p. 79 |
| Of Paradise as a Garden | p. 80 |
| The Courtesy of Old Oblivion | p. 81 |
| Halifax | p. 82 |
| The Public Gardens | p. 83 |
| Railway Stanzas | p. 86 |
| Grasses in November | p. 88 |
| Getting Ready for the Night | p. 89 |
| Nova Scotia | p. 90 |
| For A Modest God (1997) | |
| Quark Fog | p. 95 |
| Gazing at Waves | p. 97 |
| What It Is Like To Be A Bat | p. 99 |
| The Ant Lion | p. 100 |
| An Oak Skinned by Lightning | p. 101 |
| Rooster | p. 102 |
| A Crow at Morning | p. 104 |
| Flamingos | p. 105 |
| Anhinga | p. 107 |
| Turtle's Skull | p. 108 |
| Coastlines | p. 109 |
| Mutanabbi in Exile | p. 112 |
| Mutanabbi Praises the Prince | p. 114 |
| Mutanabbi Remembers his Father | p. 115 |
| The Caliph | p. 117 |
| Origins | p. 119 |
| Gravediggers' April | p. 120 |
| Hand-Painted China | p. 122 |
| Spider Silk | p. 123 |
| The Suitors of my Grandmother's Youth | p. 124 |
| The Gossip of the Fire | p. 125 |
| Finding a Portrait of the Rugby Colonists, my Ancestors among them | p. 126 |
| For a Modest God | p. 127 |
| Rain in Childhood | p. 128 |
| Baudelaire to Mme. Aupick at Honfleur (1867) | p. 130 |
| Salle des Martyrs | p. 132 |
| Blood | p. 133 |
| Hate | p. 135 |
| Amber | p. 136 |
| History | p. 137 |
| Araby (2001) | |
| Jaham's Poetic Manifesto | p. 141 |
| The Father of Clouds | |
| Jaham in the Autumn Rains | p. 143 |
| Bald Adham | p. 144 |
| Bald Adham Says his Prayers | p. 146 |
| Jaham Divines | p. 147 |
| An Old Poet Bites | p. 148 |
| Jaham on the Conquests of Childhood | p. 149 |
| Jaham and His Cat | p. 150 |
| Jaham Serenades a Snake | p. 151 |
| The Baboons of Hada | p. 153 |
| The Egyptian Vulture | p. 155 |
| At the Ruins of Recollecton | |
| Bald Adham and Black Mary | p. 157 |
| Adham Sings of Internal Combustion | p. 158 |
| Love Among the Dunes | p. 159 |
| Jaham Deciphers the Script of Insomnia | p. 160 |
| Mrs. Jaham | p. 161 |
| Bald Adham Falls into Heresy | p. 162 |
| Adham Overhauls an Old Caprice | p. 163 |
| Hubble-Bubble | p. 165 |
| The Jinn | p. 166 |
| Jaham Sings of the Fear of the Moon | p. 167 |
| Jaham's Dream Camel | p. 168 |
| Jaham Travels West to Khemisset Oasis | p. 169 |
| At the Ruins of Recollection | p. 170 |
| Last Things | |
| Ramadan | p. 173 |
| Jaham Praises | p. 174 |
| Jaham on the Difficult Beauty of the First White Hair | p. 175 |
| Caliph of Confusion | p. 176 |
| A Duet with the Wolf | p. 177 |
| Adham Atones | p. 179 |
| The Sweat of Adham | p. 180 |
| Adham in the Torments of the Tomb | p. 181 |
| Jaham Curses | p. 184 |
| Allah Answers Jaham in the Days of Dust | p. 185 |
| Jaham Says Adham's Beads | p. 187 |
| The Junkyard Vision of Jaham | p. 188 |
| Jaham Plans for the Disposal of his Remains | p. 189 |
| Jaham's Last Words | p. 190 |
| Daybreak at the Straits (2004) | |
| The Jewel Box | p. 193 |
| What the Snow Was Not | p. 195 |
| Another Thing | p. 196 |
| Ant-Lion | p. 197 |
| Dicie Fletcher | p. 199 |
| A Fragrance of Time | p. 203 |
| Childhood Pieties | p. 204 |
| Two Views of My Grandfather's Courting Letters | p. 205 |
| Cremains | p. 207 |
| Little Auguries | p. 208 |
| Mrs. Lazarus | p. 210 |
| Cradle-Song of the Emperor Penguins | p. 211 |
| Rowing into the Glades | p. 212 |
| White Phalaenopsis | p. 214 |
| A Salt Marsh near Truro | p. 215 |
| Daybreak at the Straits | p. 216 |
| A Freshly Whitewashed Room | p. 218 |
| Watchdog and Rooster | p. 221 |
| Episode with a Potato | p. 222 |
| Song for an Ironing Board | p. 223 |
| The Song of the Whisk | p. 224 |
| Time as Escargot | p. 225 |
| Vacuum Pantoum | p. 226 |
| The Gorgon in the Urn | p. 227 |
| A Dachshund in Bohemia | p. 228 |
| An Epistle from Rice Point | p. 229 |
| Our Spiders | p. 231 |
| Six Sonnets on Sex and Death | p. 233 |
| Microcosm | p. 239 |
| My Grandfather's Pocket Watch | p. 240 |
| Lines Written after Reading Thomas a Kempis | p. 242 |
| Uncollected Poems (1958-2006) | |
| After Becquer | p. 245 |
| Big Toe | p. 246 |
| A House in Winter | p. 247 |
| Milkweed | p. 248 |
| Two Songs of a Jug-Eared Dwarf | |
| Murderous Roundel | p. 249 |
| Against Death | p. 250 |
| To a Bird in Winter | p. 252 |
| Time's Covenant | |
| Prologue | p. 255 |
| The Founding of Covenant | p. 259 |
| The Landscape of Covenant | p. 261 |
| The Crossing | p. 263 |
| Master of the Covenant | p. 266 |
| Albert Milmow's Letters Home | p. 268 |
| Mr. Holgrove, Daguerrotypist | p. 270 |
| James and Virginie: My Great-Grandparents in Daguerrotype | p. 272 |
| "True Manliness" | p. 274 |
| Two Private Prayers of the Rev. Blacklock | p. 276 |
| Eden in Sepia | p. 277 |
| Time's Covenant (2006) | p. 279 |
| Coda | p. 281 |
| Notes | p. 283 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 285 |
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