Cracks in the Universe

by Tomlinson, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781903039793
• ISBN10: 1903039797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford Poets

Summary

This collection of poetry depicts those times and spaces in which awareness is made more acute from memories of childhood incidents to vivid evocations of America, France, and Spain; from meditations on works of art to precisely observed details of the world as "the thing it is." Infused with a sense of the mysteries to be found within phenomena, this is a collection shaped by the passing of time that reconciles the human and the natural worlds.

Author Biography

Charles Tomlinson is a former professor at the University of Bristol. He has published many collections of poetry and volumes of criticism and translation, and was the editor of the Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation in 1980. His poetry has won the 1993 Bennett Award from the Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004.

Table of Contents

Above the City	p. 9
A View from the Shore	p. 10
New Jersey - New York	p. 11
A Name on the Map	p. 12
The Upstate Freeze	p. 13
Apples	p. 14
Four for David Smith
Interior for Exterior	p. 15
The Timeless Clock	p. 15
Hudson River Landscape	p. 16
Bolton Landing	p. 16
Recalling Orson Welles	p. 17
Providence	p. 18
Thomas Jones in Naples, 1782	p. 19
Stellar Friendship	p. 20
The Pupil	p. 21
La Rochelle	p. 22
Monet's Giverny	p. 23
Les Joueurs de Football	p. 24
Bread and Stone	p. 26
Fantasia in Limestone	p. 27
Choice	p. 28
Pebble	p. 29
Chinchon	p. 30
November in Aranjuez	p. 32
Santiago de Compostela	p. 33
The Portuguese Ox	p. 34
Lessons
On a Picture of Burslem	p. 35
The Fruits of Ignominy	p. 35
The Bicycle	p. 36
In Memory of Agnes Beverley Burton	p. 36
To Nora Christabel Pennet	p. 37
The Boy on the Sick-Bed	p. 37
The Photograph	p. 38
Little Eve and the Miners	p. 39
In '35	p. 40
I Was a Child	p. 41
Aubade	p. 42
Seasons	p. 43
In the Valley	p. 44
Tree Talk	p. 45
Dragonflies	p. 46
Swifts	p. 47
In Autumn	p. 48
In January	p. 49
The Rain Is Over	p. 50
Jaws	p. 51
Across the Dark	p. 52
Westminster Bridge from the Eye	p. 53
In the Wind	p. 54
Returning	p. 55
In the Mirror	p. 56
A Rose from Fronteira	p. 57
Return to Valestrieri	p. 58
Mandarinas	p. 59
November	p. 60
Morning	p. 61
Frost	p. 62
On Snow	p. 63
In a Glass of Water	p. 65
Vessel	p. 66
The Holy Man	p. 67
Inheritance	p. 68
Nocturne	p. 70
The Way Back	p. 71
M62	p. 72
A Ballad of Iole and Dryope	p. 73
An Ovidian Ballad	p. 76
Eden	p. 77
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