The moon in a bowl of water
By: Michael Harlow
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Dunedin, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781988531540
Description: Michael Harlow ... presents a collection of small human journeys, with a strong emphasis on narrative. The work is consciously rooted in Greek mythology and in the idea of storytelling as a continuous river, flowing from the ancients to the present, telling one story on the surface, but carrying in its depths the glints of ancient archetypes, symbols and myths. Each poem is studded with associations that hark back millennia.
Table of contents: title: Reading between-the-lines, Miss Flora Florentine; title: A small magnificence, just buzz me Miss Blue; title: Artemis for Alcibiades; title: Weaving, and the serenity of her laughter; title: Cloudy Sunday; title: 'For once, then, something'; title: The weather in Mallorca and Tennessee; title: Counting backwards; title: The moon in a bowl of water; title: Ex Libris; title: A matinée special; title: Telling darkness; title: Our ruby anniversary; title: Swimming lessons in Spanish; title: At sea on shore; title: Contingency plan; title: The undertaking; title: One side of the door and the other; title: Bridge crossing, wheeling home / for Michaelis Odysseus; title: Rocking horse rider; title: Small stone of words; title: They eye of the day; title: Taking care of your own; title: Miss A returning; title: Fear of falling; title: The real estate of heaven; title: Short talk on walls; title: Short talk on Cézanne, Switzerland and lemonade; title: His career, a pilgrim's progressv; title: On never meeting Samuel Beckett; title: A glancing smil; title: Waiting for the the basket-of-gold girl; title: Three times blessed; title: The gardeners; title: That girl Persephone; title: Think of that; title: 'No Cause'; title: The Bishop of Hippo and Time; title: 'The secret that sits in the middle and knows'; title: In the queue; title: What is it a problem about?; title: Sister's keepsake box; title: His acting career, getting alife; title: Broom of willow twigs; title: A short walk long to the end of the world; title: Short talk on writers' block; title: On black or white, or both; title: Stalker; title: Little song on the Hit Parade; title: Sunday morning with pictures; title: One hundred laughters; title: Odysseus to his son Telemachus / a translation; title: Photojournalism and telling a story / Ara Güler; title: Merz poem, dreaming of Delphi / i.m. Kurt Schwitters; title: A romance; title: Learning to be an astronomer; title: Short talk on Note Perfect with a coda tranquillo; title: Short talk on the 'far more near'.