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100 1 $aOrmsby, Eric L.$q(Eric Linn),$d1941-
245 10 $aFor a modest God :$bnew and selected poems /$cEric Ormsby.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c℗♭1997.
300 $axi, 139 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 1 $a[Grove Press poetry series]
500 $aSeries statement on jacket.
505 0 $aQuark Fog -- Gazing at Waves -- What It Is Like to Be a Bat -- The Ant Lion -- An Oak Skinned by Lightning -- Rooster -- A Crow at Morning -- Flamingos -- Anhinga -- Turtle's Skull -- Coastlines -- Mutanabbi in Exile -- Mutanabbi Praises the Prince -- Mutanabbi Remembers His Father -- The Caliph -- Origins -- Gravediggers' April -- Hand-painted China -- Spider Silk -- The Suitors of My Grandmother's Youth -- The Gossip of the Fire -- Finding a Portrait of the Rugby Colonists, My Ancestors Among Them -- For a Modest God -- Rain in Childhood -- Baudelaire to Mme. Aupick -- Salle des martyrs -- Blood -- Crab -- Hate -- Amber -- History -- Starfish -- Railyard in Winter -- Skunk Cabbage -- Spider -- Lazarus in Skins -- Forgetful Lazarus -- Lazarus Listens -- Lazarus and Basements -- Lazarus in Sumatra -- Lichens -- Craneworld -- River Plants -- Wood Fungus -- Foundry -- Moths at Nightfall -- Statues and Mannequins -- Fingernails -- Nose -- Bavarian Shrine -- December.
520 $aOrmsby's new work is here presented together with a generous selection from two previous volumes published in Canada, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems and Coastlines. In this earlier material, the poet delights in celebrating the hidden life in everyday objects: a twisted nail, a seashell, a roadside weed, the human body itself. Revealing the mystery and amazement contained in the quotidian, Ormsby's poetry has always been able to transmute the humblest object by virtue of his stunning gift for metaphor and his opulent exuberance of language. This is a poet whose verse rewards both the head and the heart, who can discover entire galaxies in a scrap of lichen, who can locate an entire lifetime of submerged emotion in the touch of an old woman's hand.
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