The joy of a Ming vase
Subtitle: poems
By: by Ruth Dallas.
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Dunedin, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Description: These poems form a series of meditations - on a Dutch painting, a waterfall, an ancient Chinese jar, those who died in wars, a cactus on the windowsill - and each piece is imbued with the poet's awareness of the incorrigible fragility of life.