Pure Lizard

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ISBN: 9781857548334 | 1857548337
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2008

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In this new collection of poetry thst suggests such juxtaposed images as organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl, transformation and the natural world are central themes. Poems in response to such varied composers as Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass and a poetic correspondence with the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke on the writer's sense of home and place are also included.

A Hidden Truth
A Hidden Truth	p. 3
The Fourth Monkey	p. 4
Two Monkeys	p. 5
The Crow, his Beak, and a Girl	p. 6
Nine Poems in Response to Etchings by Paula Rego
The Crow's House	p. 7
The Crow and his Cat	p. 7
A Tube of Paint	p. 8
The Night Crow	p. 9
Sewing on the Shadow	p. 9
Flying Children	p. 10
Wendy and the Lost Boys	p. 11
Mermaid Drowning Wendy	p. 12
Wendy's Song	p. 13
Telemann's Frogs
What is Exotic?	p. 17
Pure Lizard	p. 18
Storm	p. 20
Bhagavati	p. 21
Coffee	p. 24
Good Omens	p. 26
Only the Blackest Stones	p. 30
Parvati Temple, Poona	p. 33
Whenever I Return	p. 34
Telemann's Frogs	p. 37
Buddha's Lost Mother	p. 40
Gale Force Winds	p. 41
Living with Stones	p. 43
Piece Caprice	p. 45
Whose Ghost Is This?	p. 49
Hyacinths	p. 50
Jasmine Tastes Bitter	p. 51
Suji	p. 52
Monkey Woman	p. 53
Lightning	p. 54
In the End	p. 55
Korean Angel	p. 56
Kikku no sekku	p. 59
Sad Walk
Four Poems: Paula Becker Speaks
Black Sails	p. 63
You Kissed My Eyelids	p. 66
Elsbeth	p. 68
Runic	p. 69
The Imagination	p. 71
She Slipped Through the Suez Canal	p. 72
The Light that Unfetters the Soul	p. 74
And look: the olives ripen, the lizards stretch	p. 75
Three Poems from South Korea
Bamboo in Gyeongju	p. 76
King Munmu	p. 77
Because of the Moon	p. 78
Finding India in Unexpected Places	p. 80
Six Entries from a Witch's Diary	p. 81
Zinzirritta	p. 83
Incessant	p. 85
Unexpected Blackness	p. 86
Sad Walk	p. 88
Solo Piano
Radishes	p. 93
Jane Eyre in the Lab	p. 94
Nine Poems in Response to Lithographs by Paula Rego
Girl Reading at Window	p. 98
Loving Bewick	p. 98
Crumpled	p. 99
Jane in a Chair with Monkey	p. 99
Jane's Back	p. 99
Bertha	p. 100
Biting	p. 100
The Keeper	p. 101
Come to Me	p. 102
Four Poems in Response to Paintings by Paula Rego
The Cadet and his Sister	p. 103
The Maids	p. 104
The Soldier's Daughter	p. 105
The Policeman's Daughter	p. 105
Portrait of a Young Man in his Study, Venice, 1528	p. 107
The Old Man Who Is Not	p. 108
Felice Beato Enters Sikander Bagh	p. 109
The Smell of Lilacs	p. 110
328 Mickle Boulevard, Camden, New Jersey	p. 114
Abstractions	p. 116
Circling Over Medellin	p. 117
A House of Silence	p. 119
Devibehn and Harilal in Pennsylvania	p. 120
Green Acorns	p. 122
He Farms for Beauty	p. 124
Phytoremediation	p. 127
Do Not Use the Word 'Erosion' Lightly	p. 129
Solo Piano: After Listening to Philip Glass	p. 131
Notes	p. 134
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