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Dreamworks: New and Selected Poems
Dreamworks: New and Selected Poems
Dreamworks: New and Selected Poems
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A stunning collection of tender and insightful poetry, this compendium of heartfelt verse strives to directly understand and cope with suicide. These poems are an earnest approach to surviving the suicide of a loved one and understanding the motives behind taking one’s own life. Written with a Christian sensibility, this book brings an interesting perspective when teaching the aspects of dealing with suicide.
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Release dateAug 24, 2018
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Dreamworks: New and Selected Poems
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James Clarke

James Clarke is the author of Movie Movements: Films That Changed The World of Cinema and a number of other film books. He has contributed to Empire, Imagine, Resurgence and Classic FM and has lectured on the subject of film at the University of Gloucestershire and the University of Sussex.

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    DREAMWORKS

    New and Selected Poems

    James Clarke

    Publishers of singular Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama, Translation and Graphic Books

    2008

    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Clarke, James

    Dreamworks / James Clarke.

    Poems.

    ISBN

    978-1-55096-109-6 (pbk)

    978-1-55096-748-7 (ePub)

    978-1-55096-749-4 (MOBI)

    978-1-55096-750-0 (PDF)

    I. Title.

    PS8555.L37486D74 2008 C811'.54 C2008-906001-6

    Copyright © 2008 James Clarke

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    for Kathy

    Love walk with me in the desert, the blizzard of Eden.

    —FRANZ WRIGHT, God’s Silence

    CONTENTS

    Heart’s Needle

    The Yearning

    Declaration

    The Mingling

    There Are Highways

    Periwinkles

    Silver Mercies

    War Time Daddy

    Flux

    Home Coming

    Remembrance Day

    Ceremonies of the Hearth

    An Unsingular Fellow

    Chekhov’s Journey

    Scapegoat

    A Short History of Hanging

    Forced Passage

    Minnows

    Palm in-the-hand Story

    Rush to Judgment

    Testimony

    Dyptich

    Requiem

    Commitment

    Last Outing

    His Deputy

    The Way of the Prophet

    After Court

    The Scary Thing

    The Gambler

    Abracadabra, or, Toward a Definition of Poetry

    The Fire

    Le lapin écorché

    In the Cemetery

    Her Last Gift

    Apparition

    The Crones

    Revenant

    Relic

    Proper Burial

    In Your Dark Cave

    Permanence

    The Quarry

    The End of Something

    Don Juan au repos

    The Last Caravan to Damascus

    Spirit House

    The Crossing

    Harry, Dead and Buried

    Nuns

    Epithalamium

    A Certain Image

    Palma Has Beautiful Dahlias

    On the Hanlon

    Sartori in Surin

    On the Rim

    Recovery

    Stalker

    Sunfish

    Love Song

    Dog Day

    Bind My Heart

    Checkmate Hour

    If You Want To be Struck by Lightning

    On Entering Court We See the Prologue to a Familiar Play

    The Small Heft of the World

    Last Parade at Arras

    Goldfinches

    The Secret Lives of Judges

    Campfire

    Absence

    The Departed

    Art Therapy

    Hidden Distances

    Winter Spell

    Epiphany

    Poet’s Haven

    A Piece of Good String

    Arboretum Memorial

    Tenebrae

    Working Late

    October Still Life

    Godfinder

    The Quality of Mercy

    Annus Horribilis

    Brief Encounter

    Milkweed

    The Unspeakable Sadness of Angels

    How I Spend My Time At the Lake

    Kaddish

    Remembrance of Things Past

    Consecrated Ground

    The Scuttering

    We Come and Go

    Termination

    The Piano Player

    Morning Meditation

    Darkening of the Mind

    Insomnia

    Dreamworks

    Selected

    One day

    I lifted my head

    from the bench

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