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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Playful and profound--Campbell's own wonderfully nuanced perspective is ... remarkable."--Booklist "Full of striking moments, the poems ... are illuminated by powerful lyric impulses."--David Wheatley, Guardian
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Song 1 The Work 2 On Eriskay 3 After the Creel Fleet 4 The Tear in the Sack 5 Rodin Sculpts The Kiss 6 Black Water 7 The Cut 8 The Winter Home 9 "The Letter Always Arrives at Its Destination" 10 Midnight 12 The Blackbird Singer 13 The Fraud 14 Harvest 15 Grez, Near Dusk 16 The Water Carrier 17 One Day, Too Hot, I Swam to the Middle of the Stream 18 Lyrebird 19 First Nights 20 Exchange Street 21 An Eel, A Singing Bird, A Silver Coin 22 A Little Night Music 23 The Well Found Dry 24 Return, Isle of Eriskay 25 When the Whales Beached 26 Later Tasting 27 Crossing 28 For the Cold 29 Fleece 30 Dream 31 Le Penseur 32 February Morning 33 Sea Coins, Scottish Beach 34 Advice on Love, Over Whisky 35 A Danse Macabre 36 Leave, Eriskay 38 Grez 39 A Porch-Step Glossary for Smokers 40 Foxes 41 Epitaph 42 Forge 43 And This Was How It Started 44 An Island Vigil 45 Walking Song 46 An Introduction to the Gods of Scotland 47 Window, Honley 48 I Started 49 Cyprus Avenue 50 The House by the Sea, Eriskay 51 The Songs of Kirilov 52 Horseshoe Crab 53 Reading Emile Zola, Grez 54 Carpenter's Studio off Exchange Street 55 Concerning Song/Silence 56 Leave Poetry 57 Addendum 58 Island Cottage, November 59 Proof 60 Smultronstallet, Glendale 61 A Sealskin Tale 62 Kid 63 Juggler 64 Winter with Soren 65 North Atlantic Drift 66 From a Letter to the Butter-Makers 67 Aesthetics, on a Side Street off Glasgow Green 68 Measuring Heat Loss in the Arctic 70 A Song for Rarity 71
