Landing Light Poems
by Paterson, DonFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-27
Publisher(s): Graywolf Press
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Summary
Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize Dear son, I wasmezzo del cammin and the true path was as lost to me as ever when you cut in front and lit it as you ran. See how the true gift never leaves the giver . . . --from "Waking with Russell" Hailed for its "seriousness and moral urgency" (The Independent),Landing Lightis one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years.
Author Biography
Don Paterson is a poet, editor, and musician. He is the author of The White Lie: New and Selected Poetry and co-editor (with Charles Simic) of New British Poetry. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
Table of Contents
| Luing | 3 | (1) | |||
| St Brides: Sea-Mail | 4 | (2) | |||
| Sliding on Loch Ogil | 6 | (1) | |||
| Waking with Russell | 7 | (1) | |||
| The Thread | 8 | (1) | |||
| Incunabula | 9 | (1) | |||
| America | 10 | (1) | |||
| The Forest of the Suicides | 11 | (6) | |||
| The Hunt | 17 | (3) | |||
| Letter to the Twins | 20 | (3) | |||
| A Fraud | 23 | (2) | |||
| The Reading | 25 | (3) | |||
| A Talking Book | 28 | (6) | |||
| The Rat | 34 | (1) | |||
| Form | 35 | (1) | |||
| The Box | 36 | (1) | |||
| The Last Waltz | 37 | (4) | |||
| The Shut-in | 41 | (1) | |||
| Web | 42 | (1) | |||
| Three Poems after Cavafy | 43 | (4) | |||
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45 | (2) | |||
| A Gift | 47 | (1) | |||
| The Wreck | 48 | (1) | |||
| The Alexandrian Library, Part III | 49 | (10) | |||
| Twinflooer | 59 | (3) | |||
| Palm | 62 | (1) | |||
| Archaic Torso of Apollo | 63 | (1) | |||
| The Long Story | 64 | (5) | |||
| '96 | 69 | (1) | |||
| Colophon | 70 | (2) | |||
| The Sea at Brighton | 72 | (1) | |||
| The Light | 73 | (1) | |||
| The Black Box | 74 | (7) | |||
| The Landing | 81 | (2) | |||
| Zen Sang at Dayligaun | 83 | (1) | |||
| The White Lie | 84 |
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