A Two-Part Invention

by Garrett, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781852244620
• ISBN10: 1852244623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

The informing spirit of Garrett's second collection is music-in the cadences of the language, the forms and resolutions of the poems. For her, A memorable poem is a kind of two-part invention, An interplay of the reader's imagination and the poet's i

Table of Contents

Envoi	9	(1)
Vista	10	(1)
Journeyman	11	(1)
By All Means Tell the Truth	12	(2)
In Saecula Saeculorum	14	(1)
Small Holdings	15	(1)
Gone	16	(1)
Field with One Poppy	17	(1)
Mortal	18	(1)
Impropriatrix	19	(1)
On First Reading Dante's Rime Petrose	20	(1)
The Reprieve	21	(1)
Miser	22	(1)
Gift	23	(1)
Unofficial Leave	24	(1)
The Calling	25	(1)
Unguentarium	26	(1)
Small Grey Bird	27	(1)
Song	28	(1)
Prints	29	(1)
Winged	30	(1)
Transposition	31	(1)
Anatomy of Departure	32	(1)
Imago	33	(1)
Alliance francaise	34	(1)
Tyranny of Choice	35	(1)
Love's Parallel	36	(1)
The Phrygian Mode	37	(1)
Paris Matins	38	(1)
Ribes rubrum	39	(1)
Interregnum	40	(1)
Fons et Origo	41	(1)
Airlift	42	(1)
Split Willow at Bathford	43	(1)
Airborne	44	(1)
Dark Vessel	45	(11)
Cosmos and Mimosa
Da Capo	46	(1)
Fundamental	47	(1)
Mediant	48	(1)
Contrary Motion	49	(1)
The Water Carriers	50	(1)
Mimesis	51	(1)
Triptych	52	(1)
Perpetuum mobile	53	(1)
Inverted Fugue	54	(1)
Envoi	55	(1)
'One day'	56