Daylight Saving: A Selection of Poems

by Robert Gray, Paul Kane (Editor)

Overview

The inaugural volume in The Braziller Series of Australian Poets.

Robert Gray has been hailed as “one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English” (Les Murray). This selection of Gray’s finest poems demonstrates his extraordinary capacity to see the world in luminous detail, rendering it with radiant intensity. Both philosophical and sensuous, this is work of remarkable originality. This series will introduce contemporary Australian poetry to American readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807616222
Publisher:	Braziller, George Inc.
Publication date:	11/04/2013
Series:	The Australian Poets Series
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert Gray is an award-winning poet whose work has been translated worldwide. He live sin Sydney, Australia.

Paul Kane is a poet and critic who has published six collections of poems and a dozen other books. He has received a Fulbright award, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation. He is general editor of The Braziller Series of Australian Poets, and is currently Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Vassar College. He lives in Warwick, New York.

Table of Contents

A Note on Robert Gray vii

Journey, the North Coast 3

Morning 5

To the Master, Dogen Zenji 7

Late Ferry 11

Flames and Dangling Wire 13

The Dusk 16

"In the early hours…" 18

Diptych 19

Before Dawn 24

Harbor Dusk 25

Byron Bay: Winter 26

Curriculum Vitae 27

Fire Sermon 33

In Thin Air 35

A Testimony 38

Description of a Walk 42

The Life of a Chinese Poet 44

The Shark 47

24 Poems 50

The Circus 53

Beach Shack 57

Philip Hodgins 58

After Heraclitus 60

In Departing Light 64

A Bowl of Pears 70

The Fishermen 72

Wintry Dusk, Bellingen 76

Home Run 77

At the Cove 82

Among the Mountains of Guang-xi Province in Southern China 84

The Creek 86

Valedictory 89

Thinking of Harriet 92

Joan Eardley in Catterline 93

Minima 96

Sanssouci 100

Classifying the Animals 104

Ekphrasis 105

Earthly Music 111

Wing Beat 113

Editorial Reviews

"To read Robert Gray is to sense and see with renewed vividness, as if there had been a scrim or barrier between ourselves and the world, and he has restored us to it by tearing away the separation. "

ForeWord Reviews