Doe songs /
"These poems inhabit a world of permeable barriers where transformations readily occur between men and women, humans and animals, the living and the dead. Hers is a world where the real and the mythical rub shoulders, where people know abou the magical properties of plants, where anything can h...
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Leeds :
Peepal Tree Press Ltd,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- To enter my mother's house
- How to make him stay
- Doe
- Dream of my daughter as a fawn
- Dream of my daughter as a turtle
- Tayra
- Portrait of my father as a grouper
- Howler
- Feathers
- Guayaba
- Tangerines
- Jaguar Mary, Maria Lionaz
- Boa gravida
- Mama River
- Cornbird
- Sombra
- The fifth month
- Amateur midwifery
- The labouring mammal's journal of hours
- Delivery
- Alternative remedies
- Learning to breathe in luminous water
- Novena for a wounded wild mother
- Waiting
- Carry home
- The gardener's duaghter in the evening
- The gardener's daughter writes home
- The gardener's daughter walks in the dark
- Solar eclipse, Guapo Beach
- Brasso, homeward
- The blue house
- Reader, beware
- Chameleon thoughts
- Your daughter is trouble
- Pictures
- Mother in the morning
- The visitor
- Coronary I
- Coronary II
- Coronary III
- The haunting of his name
- Letters from New Grace
- Last postcard from New Grace
- On being burnt
- The ninth moon
- Praise song in carbon
- A poem on the world's last night
- Book of nights
- A hammer to love with
- Five songs for Petra.