The asparagus feast

The asparagus feast / S.P. Zitner.

Once she woke me in the streaky dark to savour one of her delights - "larks against bells," she called it. We carried our coffees down to the minty garden and waited ankle-deep in dew. Across the shallow valley, the early traffic crept in glimmers through the groundmist. At dawn the cannon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zitner, Sheldon P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999.
Series:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Canadian poetry > 20th century.
American poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Canadian poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • ONE
  • The Neighbourhood in Phases
  • A Place of One's Own
  • Batterie de Cuisine: The Cleaver
  • The Blue Vase
  • On Hearing the Internationale at the Bloor Street Subway Station
  • Heard on the Street
  • The Two Graces
  • Tomatoes
  • Thrift Shop
  • Cafeteria
  • Insomnia
  • Father and Daughter
  • Alarm
  • Recovery Room
  • Aubade
  • TWO
  • The Tie
  • Two Collegial Elegies
  • The Asparagus Feast
  • The Exorcism
  • Language Lessons
  • Loquacious Philomel
  • Orpheus Silent
  • Rain
  • THREE
  • Looking Back At Us
  • The Coral SeaRecalling the Roll: Hampton Institute 1955/1995
  • The Hot-Rods Ride at Dusk
  • The Hunt
  • The Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.: 1,000 Political Photos in the Occidental Grill
  • The American Smile
  • FOUR
  • War Stories
  • A Stop in Orvieto
  • FIVE
  • Congreve
  • That Island
  • Album Leaves
  • Because We Have Known Them
  • The Supplement
  • I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
  • SIX
  • Bas-Relief
  • King Charles's Head
  • The Cardinal's Cortege
  • Parish Records, ca. 1600
  • Rutherford's Division of the Atom
  • Evidence of Things Not SeenSEVEN
  • 3 A.M.
  • September Letter
  • Towards Winter
  • For Murray Hunter, M.D.
  • Old Man and Skeleton in a Teaching Hospital
  • EIGHT
  • Notes on Speech and Silence
  • Famine
  • Pastimes
  • Reading Habits
  • For P.K. Page
  • Akhmatova
  • Smuggler's Requiem
  • Shirley Wiitasalo Accepts an Arts Award
  • Hopper Retrospective
  • Minor English Watercolours of the 19th Century
  • Deaf Visitors Among Dutch Paintings
  • 8 1/2 x 11 White Unlined
  • Respects to William Basse
  • Acknowledgments

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