The Egg of Zero

by Gross, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781852247263
• ISBN10: 1852247266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, loss or forgetting, though they are moving elegies. This is an indefinable O that gives surprising edge to life and language around it. Direct, meditative, playful, hyperalert, Philip Gross's distinctively wide-ranging tones work together in this searching new collection that addresses the mind and heart.

Table of Contents

Having built the pleasure dome	p. 9
Fire forms	p. 10
Translucence	p. 13
Great western	p. 14
Every last thing	p. 15
Well you may ask	p. 16
The assembled	p. 17
Big snow	p. 20
Day one	p. 21
Plymouth hoe, with Aunt G.	p. 22
Thin houses	p. 24
The city between	p. 25
Mnemonic	p. 26
The age we are	p. 28
A chance of dragons	p. 33
Sailors	p. 34
Rock stump in the desert	p. 35
Red kites rising	p. 36
Itch	p. 37
Seedfall	p. 38
Out of town	p. 39
Still falling	p. 40
Lachrymans	p. 42
Floating world	p. 43
Chalk form, with erosion	p. 44
Next to nothing	p. 46
The long walkers	p. 47
A property of goole	p. 48
The old order	p. 49
Mosquito music	p. 50
Scenes from the never movies	p. 51
Her cake, and eating it	p. 52
Unburglars	p. 53
Opera bouffe	p. 54
Survivors	p. 55
A poppy in black	p. 56
Laundry night	p. 58
A God's-eye-view	p. 59
The life of it	p. 60
The Quakers of Pompeii	p. 61
Thirty seconds on the Baltic	p. 62
Last days	p. 63
Shell forms	p. 64
The abstract garden	p. 66
The channel	p. 68
Tree form : baobab	p. 70
Translated	p. 72
One thing	p. 73
Still life with commas	p. 74
0	p. 76
Jizz	p. 77
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