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050 00 $aPS3565.R59$bF6 1997
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100 1 $aOrmsby, Eric L.$q(Eric Linn),$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82245410
245 10 $aFor a modest God :$bnew and selected poems /$cEric Ormsby.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axi, 139 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aGrove Press poetry series
500 $aSeries statement on jacket.
505 00 $tQuark Fog --$tGazing at Waves --$tWhat It Is Like to Be a Bat --$tThe Ant Lion --$tAn Oak Skinned by Lightning --$tRooster --$tA Crow at Morning --$tFlamingos --$tAnhinga --$tTurtle's Skull --$tCoastlines --$tMutanabbi in Exile --$tMutanabbi Praises the Prince --$tMutanabbi Remembers His Father --$tThe Caliph --$tOrigins --$tGravediggers' April --$tHand-painted China --$tSpider Silk --$tThe Suitors of My Grandmother's Youth --$tThe Gossip of the Fire --$tFinding a Portrait of the Rugby Colonists, My Ancestors Among Them --$tFor a Modest God --$tRain in Childhood --$tBaudelaire to Mme. Aupick --$tSalle des martyrs --$tBlood --$tCrab --$tHate --$tAmber --$tHistory --$tStarfish --$tRailyard in Winter --$tSkunk Cabbage --$tSpider --$tLazarus in Skins --$tForgetful Lazarus --$tLazarus Listens --$tLazarus and Basements --$tLazarus in Sumatra --$tLichens --$tCraneworld --$tRiver Plants --$tWood Fungus --$tFoundry --$tMoths at Nightfall --$tStatues and Mannequins --$tFingernails --$tNose --$tBavarian Shrine --
505 80 $tDecember --$tConch Shell --$tMy Mother in Old Age --$tMy First Beach --$tRemembrance --$tHorseshoe Crab --$tAdages of a Grandmother --$tGrackle --$tA Florida Childhood --$tLive Oak, with Bromeliads --$tFragrances --$tFlorida Bay --$tHighway Grasses --$tSavannahs --$tMullein --$tChildhood House --$tOld Photographs of Children --$tGarter Snake --$tOf Paradise as a Garden --$tHalifax --$tThe Public Gardens --$tRailway Stanzas --$tGetting Ready for the Night --$tNova Scotia.
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.
520 8 $aRevealing 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.
830 0 $aGrove Press poetry series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83736539
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3565.R59$iF6 1997