Actions for Firebreaks : poems
Firebreaks : poems / John Kinsella
- Author
- Kinsella, John, 1963-
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Published
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 284 pages ; 21 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Prologue: Scan (just before leaving Jam Tree Gully) -- English Exile -- To Whom Am I Writing? -- In Cambridge I stay up into the early hours -- Howling Wind, Cambridge -- Bound by Properties -- Sleepy Hollow Transpositions Including a Six-Line Stanza (Incarnations of Jam Tree Gully Recollected from England) -- The Guru Keeps an Eye on Jam Tree Gully in Our Absence -- Blocking Out (the home schedule) -- The Mental Barriers to Home -- Photo of an Eagle at Jam Tree Gully Sent to us at Cambridge -- Report from Jam Tree Gully -- Fig Tree, Jam Tree Gully -- Return to Jam Tree Gully: Internal Exile -- Mixing the Registers -- Ex Ponto IV [—] Ovid at Jam Tree Gully -- Reply -- Confrontation with the New Reality & Listening to 7 Year Bitch's "Sick 'Em" -- Reaching Out -- Corridor -- Grubbing Out Solanum Nigrum and Imagining Hacking Out Atropa Belladonna with a Hoe -- On First Looking Back into Jam Tree Gully -- A Day in the Life -- Ashes to Ashes -- Engines Induce Anxiety -- Stone Heroes -- Interrogation Demotics (to Ovid in Exile) -- Ex Ponto IV xiii -- Positive Markers -- Some parts of language -- Fencing Reversals -- Fencing Reversals 2 -- Fencing Reversals 3 -- Blandishments: 'Ni dieu ni maitre!' -- Howz ya therapy goin'? -- The Coondle Elegies -- Mob! -- Returns -- Arbiter -- Tristia Storm -- I Mistake the Scene(ry) For a Painting -- The Painfully Red Object Across the Valley -- Feral Tomcat's Territorial Gains -- Gathering Kindling With Tim While the Seasons Change Slightly As We Walk -- Carnaby's Cockatoos at New Norcia -- Canola Anti-prayer (New Norcia 2) -- Brother (New Norcia 3) -- Foxes Strung Up on Fence on Toodyay-Bindi Bindi Road: In the Accusative -- Ghost Trophies -- Bush Thanatos -- Frankenthaler at Jam Tree Gully: (No) Mountains and (No) Sea (1952) -- Mauve District (Frankenthaler, 1966): 2012 -- Uncanny Rural, Sexual Politics and Frankenthaler's Nature Abhors a Vacuum -- Caterpillar Time -- Hint from Frankenthaler -- Testimonial -- 'Incursion' of Native Blue-banded Bees -- Confusion of the Senses -- Hail -- Mummified Frog -- Brown Falcon -- Brown Falcon 2 -- Restorative -- Two Boats on the Firebreak -- Skittish -- This is no stockade -- Juvenile Kestrel, Juvenile Human -- A Short Narrative of Wild Bees and a Torn Calf Muscle -- Feral Tomcat's Piss -- The Parrot Poisoners -- Bushfire Approaching -- Arc -- Tarping the Stacks -- Scarecrows -- Gathering Evidence -- Bobtail Skeleton at Gathercole Nature Reserve -- Envoy -- From Jam Tree Gully/Coondle in the time of 'mouse plague' and fire -- Commencement: Green on the Firebreaks is Torn Asunder -- I Lose Connection with What I Am Most Intimate With if I am Not Writing It (emerging from inside the house after illness) -- Nest -- Rounding Out the Corners -- Black-headed Monitor Leaves the Roof Space and Basks -- Pouch -- Measuring Space by Car (Out of Illich) -- Phenomenological Spheres at Jam Tree Gully? -- Out of the bottom drawer comes the new seed -- Spooked -- Dewar's Pool -- Brown Falcon: Inside and Outside the Circle -- Things that go bump in the night -- From a small room looking out -- The house huddles -- Centred -- Comatos and Lacon -- Uppity? -- Roots -- Dry Lightning at Night [—] apprehension -- Fever Poem -- Freeing a Mouse from the Humane Trap Around Midnight -- Releasing the Mice: Zones of Hell -- U-turns -- Test Case -- Waddle -- Mice Nesting in the House: Stove, Walls, Roof, Rooms -- Threatened -- Sealed In/Blocked Out -- Mice (return [—] eternal postscript?) -- Insurance Policy -- Reading the Fading Templates -- The local struggles towards a multicultural notion of place -- The year's first burnings-off -- Trap -- Vatic -- Frog Declarative -- Below the Graft -- Gregarious not Gregorian -- Rams and the Red Shed -- An absence of ghosts -- Portrait of the Poet at Fifty (at Jam Tree Gully) -- The decorative arts: growth and extermination -- Cutouts and Light (after Matisse) -- Hollow(ing) -- Venus -- Ecology and the Woodheap and the 'ion' Suffix -- Séance Memory and Cold so Bitter that the Fire is Kept Burning Despite Consequences to the Biosphere -- Why I let other living things stand my ground and how the inorganic can be living, too -- Yes, I am calling you a racist, Walt Whitman. Pure and simple. -- Walt Whitman and Timber Creek -- Inversions -- Empathy of Space: a satire? -- Puffball Outbreak -- Universal Translator -- Nuptial Flight -- Rilke on Rodin via Jam Tree Gully after late winter rain -- Hallelujah -- Verey Verey Lights -- Straw Poll -- Native Cutwood Deflects Colonial Hunger -- The Swarm's Generating and Degenerating Ellipse -- On Mizen Peninsula, Ireland -- Orange 1962 Massey Ferguson Tractor, Corthna -- Imagine this Wild Sea from Jam Tree Gully -- Wheatbelt and West Cork Colonial Diegetic -- White Quartz of the Drombeg Stone Circle -- Reintroduction -- Falling into Cape Clear Island -- Electric Rococo Recollections of Jam Tree Gully from Afar -- Crossing the Irish Sea from Rosslare to Fishguard between Storms -- Jam Tree Gully Stopover Considered from Schull -- Jam Tree Gully Envoys -- Gatekeepers -- Hermit's Song -- Red Shed Shrine -- Fire Harvest -- Doe with Large Joey Snuggles Against the Hot House as Fire Approaches -- Saving the Bobtail Mother-to-Be.
- Summary
- Known for a poetry both experimental, "activist," and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family's life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and his deeply felt ecological concerns in this new cycle of poems about place, landscape, home, and absence.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780393352610 (softcover)
0393352617 (softcover)
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