Slow Air

by Robertson, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780151007462
• ISBN10: 0151007462
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Strongly rooted in the wonders of the natural world, this collection of poems strikes a balance along the mind's boundaries, looking outward and inward. Combining a cool gaze with a precise clarity of expression, the verse is muscular and delicate, spare and musical. From "that net of birds / that moves / unloosened / under bridges at dusk" to "the sea / wrecking itself against the rocks," Robertson is a master of evocative depiction. Filled with an irrepressible zest for life, he traces the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiance and shadows of life with a subtlety that is at once exhilarating and sensual.

Author Biography

Raised on the northeast coast of Scotland, Robin Robertson is a highly acclaimed poet and editor. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Grand Street, the London Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Apart	p. 3
Head Over Heels	p. 4
Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter	p. 5
The Language of Birds	p. 6
Maroon, Over Black on Red	p. 8
Nightdriving	p. 10
The Oven Man	p. 11
March, Lewisboro	p. 12
Hanging Fire	p. 18
Maryculter, 1972	p. 19
Break	p. 20
Raising the Paint	p. 21
Tryst	p. 22
Exposure	p. 23
The Harbour Wife	p. 24
False Spring	p. 25
The Wood of the Suicides	p. 26
Anxiety #2	p. 28
Anxiety #3	p. 29
Anxiety #5	p. 30
The Larches of Zernikow	p. 31
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