Country of Light

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Summary

"Like all of the best poets, Stroud makes the earth again consolable."--Jim Harrison

Plainsong
The potato	p. 5
Dancing with Machado	p. 7
The performance	p. 9
First kiss	p. 10
In a Lydian mode	p. 12
Ode to the smell of firewood	p. 13
Homage to George Mackay Brown	p. 16
The birdcages of Oaxaca	p. 17
The old poets home	p. 18
Book of horror	p. 20
Book of psalms	p. 22
Rooms	p. 30
Daybook, nightbook : Shay Creek
Waking	p. 39
Lodestone	p. 40
In the stream pavilion	p. 41
Writhing in tongues	p. 42
On what planet	p. 43
During the rains	p. 44
Over the edge	p. 45
Scatology	p. 46
The little Taj	p. 47
Cutting down the Jeffrey	p. 48
Wintering	p. 50
Living alone	p. 51
Homage to the thief	p. 52
Reading Joyce in winter	p. 54
Late night, year's end, doing the books with Tu Fu	p. 55
I wanted to paint paradise	p. 57
Passing Through
Sleeper, awake	p. 85
Altair and Vega crossing the river of heaven	p. 86
Swath	p. 86
Iris	p. 87
Cathedral	p. 87
Memory : Quonset Hut, Rodger Young Village, 1947	p. 88
In my father's mansion there are many rooms	p. 88
Reading Wallace Stevens	p. 89
If only the dreamer could change the dream	p. 89
The executions on Principe Pio Hill	p. 90
Closing this year's anthology, I think of Radulfus Glaber, who sought refuge	p. 90
My Lord what a morning when the stars begin to fall	p. 91
Coat of many colors	p. 91
Elsewhere	p. 92
My marriage with death	p. 93
Rune	p. 94
Stitching the woe shirt	p. 95
The death of Lorca	p. 96
Into the dragon	p. 98
What he told me in Phongsali	p. 101
Speaking in tongues	p. 102
Passing through	p. 105
At the well of heavenly clarity	p. 107
Country of clouds	p. 109
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