Title: Ordinary mornings of a coliseum : poems /
Authors: Dubie, Norman, 1945-
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Spiritual life Poetry
Contents: Hunter in an arctic midnight -- A lost notebook of Srinivasa Ramanujan -- Polio season in the San Joaquin -- Elder Gogol's pond at Plokhino Skete -- In the palace of the Sans Souci -- Wrong double sonnet of the Coup d'État: -- For the original people -- Reading late at night -- The first incognito -- Boatmen on the River Mons -- Nightmare with heat lightning -- The young professor from Wyoming wears a red-banded skin of snake on the spirit finger of her right hand that shakes... -- The winter apocalypse of Doctor Caleb Minus -- Taos -- Shambhala -- The pit -- Winter Garrison -- The Pasha on the hill -- Blue -- Intolerance -- Ordinary mornings of a coliseum -- At Corfu -- Death by compass -- The desert census of Elder Cyril, the Little Hermit of Antioch -- The pendulum -- Desultory photo with ocean prospect -- Of art & memory -- The last sentence of the evening -- Late in the three periods of no thought -- The mandala keeper -- Dementia -- Ars poetica: a stone soup -- Elegy for a fallen brother, composed in the first month of winter -- Afterword to a quartet: vision of a Tibetan master walking over snow -- The Fish Cipher of Michel de Nostradam -- Revelation of a winter's night -- Ancestral -- Riddle.