Galileo's Salad

by Heath-Stubbs, John Francis Alexander

• ISBN13: 9781857542608
• ISBN10: 1857542606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Summary

John Heath-Stubbs's new book is more elegiac, but no less firm in its celebrations, than his last, Sweetapple Earth(1993). No poet since Auden has had the technical resources Heath-Stubbs deploys in his wonderfully various work. He is a poet on a substantial scale, ranging over the literatures of Europe and the Mediterranean. Intimate with classical and biblical traditions, his tone is never earnest: he has a fine sense of humor and a wry way of commenting on modern life.

Table of Contents

Icarus	p. 7
The Ascent	p. 9
The Dark Birds	p. 10
The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, Tra-la	p. 11
A Great Cosmic Cheer	p. 12
Laughing Philosopher / Weeping Philosopher	p. 13
Galileo's Salad	p. 14
The Dumb Ox	p. 15
At the Ninth Hour	p. 16
For the Shrine of Saint Edward, King and Martyr	p. 17
Balakirev and the Bugs	p. 19
The Bleak Midwinter	p. 20
A Squirrel on the Window Ledge	p. 21
The Collared Dove	p. 22
Naming of Rivers	p. 23
In Praise of Beans	p. 24
The Shield-Bug	p. 25
Midi	p. 26
Cimex Lectularius	p. 27
A Kind of Fly	p. 28
Cerambus	p. 29
Wasted Prayer	p. 30
Not All at Once	p. 31
Homage to Marianne Moore	p. 32
A Cold in the Head	p. 33
Redloam, My Ex	p. 34
The God of Fun	p. 35
A West Country Story	p. 37
In Memory	p. 38
A Memory of the Thirties	p. 39
Upon Their Pedestals	p. 41
A Portrait by Reynolds	p. 42
For Dr Edward Lowbury on His Eightieth Birthday	p. 43
Physicians on Parnassus	p. 44
The Guinea Pig	p. 45
Cat Star Rising	p. 46
The Expostulation of Arfur, the Lion	p. 48
Balaeniceps Rex	p. 50
The King of the Cats	p. 51
Tom Bawcock's Day	p. 54
Rexque Futurus	p. 55
A Ballad of the Piltdown Man	p. 56
The Nightingale and the Rose	p. 57
For the Centenary Dinner of the Omar Khayyam Society	p. 58
New Year's Day	p. 59
St. Valentine's Day	p. 59
Shrove Tuesday	p. 59
Mothering Sunday	p. 60
Easter Day	p. 60
All Fools' Day	p. 60
St. George's Day	p. 61
May Day	p. 62
Midsummer Eve	p. 63
All Halloween	p. 63
Guy Fawkes Day	p. 63
Christmas	p. 64
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