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- 9781876857080
- Book Title
- Terrain Seed Scarcity : Poems from a Decade
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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- Number of Pages
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Terrain Seed Scarcity opens with a selection of poems in which the concern for scarcity as a speculative edge first surfaced, and is followed by six sequences arranged in short prose clusters or stanzas, sometimes with verse tail-pieces. Four of these focus directly on trees: under the aspect of addition as a branching diversion rather than a dispersal; the co-forms of forest evoked as edge, line and verticality; plantations as parallels to a re-covered, stretched centre; a lean, denuded outcrop of trees better served by what wheels around it than by what it fails to contain. Some of these sequences are accompanied by brief essays as sideshoots or offshoots. Other poems work through the sourcefulness of an environmental sink figured also as recess or protection, and there is a set of minimalist sententiae which rework 18th century landscape aesthetics. The collection ends with a cycle of syllabic poems, 'Spirit of the Trees' derived from a once popular anthology. Some of the more recent material is published here for the first time.
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Publisher
Salt Publishing
ISBN-10
1876857080
ISBN-13
9781876857080
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1939603
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Book Title
Terrain Seed Scarcity : Poems from a Decade
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
216 Pages
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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
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This is a long-overdue collection which I welcome unreservedly. Ten years of complex prose poetry concerned with matters ecological and with the possibility of post-modern pastoral. Innovative stuff indeed, it can be thorny in places, as befits the dense undergrowth of this terrain, but finishes with the luminous seven-line 'found' verses of 'Spirit of the Trees'., With a few exceptions, the sequences collected in Terrain Seed Scarcity are formally of a piece: a series of brief, extremely dense prose paragraphs, separated by large stanza breaks. Occasionally a prose passage breaks into verse, though the tense, verbless notations and almost arbitrary linebreaks (often mid-word) have a texture closer to open-form marginalia than polished lyric utterance … Despite my hesitations and uncertainties about this often very difficult collection, it gives me a firmer sense of the importance of what Larkin's doing in a way that encountering his individual chapbooks never did … Larkin himself is sometimes almost painfully modest in his claims for his work at one point he says it hopes to achieve 'a minor freshness' (82) but for this reader Terrain Seed Scarcity was one of the genuine discoveries of the past few years., With a few exceptions, the sequences collected in Terrain Seed Scarcity are formally of a piece: a series of brief, extremely dense prose paragraphs, separated by large stanza breaks. Occasionally a prose passage breaks into verse, though the tense, verbless notations and almost arbitrary linebreaks (often mid-word) have a texture closer to open-form marginalia than polished lyric utterance ... Despite my hesitations and uncertainties about this often very difficult collection, it gives me a firmer sense of the importance of what Larkin's doing in a way that encountering his individual chapbooks never did ... Larkin himself is sometimes almost painfully modest in his claims for his work - at one point he says it hopes to achieve 'a minor freshness' (82) - but for this reader Terrain Seed Scarcity was one of the genuine discoveries of the past few years.
Table of Content
From Scarce Norm Scarcer MeaniiiiiiivvviviiviiiAdditional TreesTending : ProlepsisIIIIIISeek Source Bid SinkIIIIIIThree Forest ConformitiesIIIIIIAttached, AssoiledIIIIIIIVParallels Plantations ApartI: Dur HillII: ThrowleyIII: Duke's PlantationIV: Central WoodLandscape with Figures AfieldWhitefield in Wild Wheel1: Prelude2: The Clump3: A Fragment Striates4: With Wheeling Economy5: Love's Plenary AnalogySpirit of the TreesThe Beech Tree's Petition (TC)To a Dead Tree (GNC )The Elder Tree (WC)Morning, the Sixteenth Day (RC)The Wych-Elm (RC)The Poplar Field (WC)Apple Tree (JD)The Willow (WD-L-M)The Leafless Tree (BMD)Reciprocity (JD)An Elegy of Elms (ARF)Ode to a Tree (JG)The Votive Tree (EG)Elms (JG)In a Wood (TH)Binsey Poplars (GMH)Song of Poplars (AH)Magnolia (IJ)The English Garden (WM)Orchard Idyll (SM)Dirge in the Woods (GM)Lines Written on an August Morning (JMM)Tree Planting (AN)The Scotch Fir (WHO)Song of Palms (AO'S)In the Beechwood (JDCP)Poplars (MP)Hawthorns (DUR)The Trees of the Garden (DGR)Trees (MS)The Cuckoo Wood (EBS)Outlived by Trees (SS)A Hollow Elm (ES)The Tree Uprooted (DSS)Copper Beeches (KS)The Holly Tree (RS)The Silent Trees (JS)Aspens (ET)The Yew Tree (ALT)The Tree (EU)The Timber (HV)Winter Branches (AV)Song of the Redwood-Tree (WW)Yew Trees (WW)
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
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Dewey Decimal
821.914
Dewey Edition
21
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