Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw

"Chris Wallace-Crabbe writes with an alert curiosity about the world and the speculation it gives rise to. He celebrates household objects as well as the textures of the Australian landscape; European ancestors, both familial and intellectual, and the consciousness of animals; the damaged planet and the continuing possibilities of belief; science and soul. Humour and gravity inform his richly orchestrated language. Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw is a collection for a complicated world, both joyous and shrewd."--BOOK JACKET.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe is professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Amorous Cannibal, By and Large, Read It Again, The Universe Looks Down, and Whirling, and the editor of Oxford University Press’s Australian Writers and The Oxford Literary History of Australia.

A Vocation	p. 9
And Terror	p. 11
Gross and Violent Stimulants	p. 12
It Sounds Different Today	p. 13
The Domestic Sublime
The Surface of Things	p. 15
Saucer	p. 15
Indoor Yachting	p. 16
Coat Hangers Galore	p. 16
Garlic	p. 17
At the Clothesline	p. 17
Its Private Idiom	p. 18
The Alignments	p. 19
Ending with a Preposition	p. 22
Theogony	p. 23
From the Island, Bundanon	p. 24
Mitsubishi Moments	p. 27
Daphne Fitzroy	p. 28
Delivering Tact	p. 29
Along the Bough	p. 30
Joy on the Very Edge of History	p. 31
Grasses	p. 33
And Gathering Swallows Twitter	p. 34
Anne Miller	p. 35
Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting	p. 37
The Speech of Birds	p. 38
At the Bionic Elephant	p. 39
Do I Sleep or Am I Slept?	p. 41
A Faun's Arvo	p. 42
Meanings of Lowell	p. 43
Near the Ha-Ha, Bundanon	p. 45
Leaning Against the Golden Undertow	p. 46
Intermezzo	p. 47
Parking for Zeno	p. 49
The Stone's in the Midst of All	p. 50
A Descendant	p. 51
One Step after Another	p. 53
Reading Smoke with Orpheus	p. 54
Provincial Distinctions	p. 56
Boleyn, Tourist	p. 57
Mozart on the Road	p. 58
The Drudges	p. 60
A Triptych for my Father	p. 61
Not Going to Korea After All	p. 63
The World as Will and Idea	p. 64
A Summons in the Peak Period	p. 65
Stranger Country	p. 66
The Land of Motionless Childhood	p. 67
Loving in Truth	p. 69
Oh Yes, Then	p. 70
We Are All Grown-ups	p. 71
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