Full Description
"Kaleidoscope" is the first in a series of ten volumes to be published over the next ten years as a complement to an online hypermedia edition of the "Collected Works of P. K. Page". Listed chronologically by date of composition, the poetry in "Kaleidoscope" is fluid, wondrous and technically exquisite, drawing on subjects great and small, and it offers a comprehensive look at one of Canada's most beloved and brilliant poets.
Contents
For G.E.R. Ecce Homo The Crow Emergence Desiring Only The Mole Cullen Personal Landscape The Stenographers Bank Strike The Landlady As Ten As Twenty Offices The Flower and the Rock The Bands and the Beautiful Children Element Stories of Snow Adolescence Election Day If It Were You Round Trip This Cold Man Only Child Outcasts Puppets Young Girls Man with One Small Hand Paranoid He loved himself too much. As a child was god. Thunder stemmed from his whims, The Permanent Tourists Portrait of Marina Reflection in a Train Window The Map Giants Photos of a Salt Mine The Apple The Masks are Made by Hand and Show The Event The keys all turned to that event Images of Angels T-Bar Social Note Ordinary people are lovely, they understand Arras The Metal and the Flower This Frieze of Birds Chimney Fire War Lord in the Early Evening Giovanni and the Indians After Rain The Glass Air Bark Drawing Cook's Mountains Knitters Brazilian House On Educating the Natives Rage Truce This Whole Green World A Wish Some Paintings by Portinari Votive Candles Natural History Museum Could I Write a Poem Now? Brazilian Fazenda Cry Ararat! Dark Kingdom The Snowman A Backwards Journey Another Space Those people in a circle on the sand Fly: On Webs Knitter's Prayer Travellers' Palm Anachronism Ecology Three Gold Fish Beside You Let the Honey Accumulate Neighbours Picking Daffodils Leather Jacket Preparation The Yellow People in Metamorphosis Stefan Masqueraders Spinning Shaman Finches Feeding Ancestors The Trail of Bread Macumba: Brazil Phone Call from Mexico Seraphim Dwelling Place The Flower Bed A Grave Illness The Selves Motel Pool The Disguises Domestic Poem for a Summer Afternoon About Death After Reading Albino Pheasants by Patrick Lane Evening Dance of the Grey Flies Message The First Part (excerpt) George Johnston Reading Entreaty Out Here: Flowering Star-Gazer The Filled Pen Custodian Ours This Sky Intraocular Lens Model 103G Concentration Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree Invisible Presences Fill the Air Visitants The New Bicycle Suffering The Gift The Hidden Components Kaleidoscope Lily on the Patio This Heavy Craft Chinook Conversation The World Address at Simon Fraser (excerpt) The End Love's Pavilion Planet Earth Presences Autumn The Gold Sun Poor Bird Hologram The Castle Funeral Mass The Hidden Room Like a Cruise Ship Request to the Alchemist But We Rhyme in Heaven Pain to His Helper Alphabetical (excerpt) Cosmologies Even Lucifer Poem Canzonic with love to AMK Ah, by the Golden Lilies The Blue Guitar Green, How Much I Want You Green Hand Luggage (excerpt) My Chosen Landscape Coal and Roses--A Triple Glosa Your Slightest Look How to Write a Poem Paradise Cullen in the Afterlife
