The White Lie New and Selected Poetry

by Paterson, Don

• ISBN13: 9781555973537
• ISBN10: 1555973531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

A rising star in the United Kingdom, contemporary Scottish poet Paterson is poised to become a major voice of our time.The London Review of Bookscalls him "one of the most talented Scottish writers of the new generation."The White Lieis the first and only American selection of Paterson's lyric and urbane poems.

Author Biography

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1963. His poetry collections include Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, and The Eyes. Paterson has been the recipient of several literary awards and prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is currently Poetry Editor at Picador (U.K.) and divides his time between Edinburgh and Kirriemuir, Scotland. Paterson is also a jazz guitarist and has recorded many albums with his band, The Lammas.

Table of Contents

From Nil Nil
The Ferryman's Arms	3	(1)
Morning Prayer	4	(1)
Filter	5	(1)
Exeunt	6	(3)
Sunset, Visingso	9	(1)
Ezekiel	10	(2)
Sisters	12	(1)
Seed	13	(1)
An Elliptical Stylus	14	(2)
Amnesia	16	(2)
The Alexandrian Library	18	(10)
Next to Nothing	28	(1)
The Trans-Siberian Express	29	(1)
Pioneer	30	(1)
Wind-Tunnel	31	(1)
Poem	32	(1)
Perigee	33	(1)
Bedfellows	34	(1)
Nil Nil	35	(6)
From God's Gift to Women
Prologue	41	(2)
00:00: Law Tunnel	43	(2)
The Scale of Intensity	45	(2)
The Chartres of Gowrie	47	(1)
11:00: Baldovan	48	(2)
A Private Bottling	50	(4)
To Cut It Short	54	(1)
Buggery	55	(1)
God's Gift to Women	56	(9)
The Lover	65	(1)
Imperial	66	(1)
Little Corona	67	(1)
12:00: Dronley	68	(1)
The Alexandrian Library Part II: The Return of the Book	69	(9)
19:00: Auchterhouse	78	(1)
from Advice to Young Husbands	79	(1)
Candlebird	80	(3)
From The Eyes
Advice	83	(1)
To Emiliano Barral	84	(1)
The Eyes	85	(1)
Profession of Faith	86	(1)
Meditation	87	(1)
Paradoxes	88	(1)
Poetry	89	(1)
Promethean	90	(1)
Road	91	(1)
Siesta	92	(1)
3 O'Clock	93	(1)
The Waterwheel	94	(1)
The Work	95	(1)
To the Great Zero	96	(3)
New Poems
The Wreck	99	(1)
Luing	100	(1)
St. Brides: Sea-Mail	101	(2)
My Love	103	(2)
The White Lie	105