In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton (Voyageur Classics: Books That Explore Canada)

Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Portrait of the Poet as A Book: An Introduction by Harold Rhenisch -- I Watching the House Move -- The House (1995) -- Flux (1981) -- In This Poem I Am (1981) -- Back Again (1981) -- Burning Sticks, Mallorca (1974) -- Limits (1981) -- Marigolds (1985) -- II A Family Life -- Kinship (1981) -- Prayer Before Birth (1985) -- The Waking (1972) -- Autobiography -- Land Without Customs (1960) -- The Circumcision (1974) -- Alison Jane Skelton (1962) -- A Son Sleeping (1958) -- Triptych (1981) -- Heritage (1981);In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a black hat that looked as if it came from a Venetian gondolier but was really picked up at the re-enactment of a Cariboo Gold Rush-era general store in Barkerville, B.C. In this selection of his best verse there are poems of "high" and "low" art, spells and prayers, meditations, shemanic maps, and, in the centre of the book, "messages," those strange, inspired "gif. Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Portrait of the Poet as A Book: An Introduction by Harold Rhenisch -- I Watching the House Move -- The House (1995) -- Flux (1981) -- In This Poem I Am (1981) -- Back Again (1981) -- Burning Sticks, Mallorca (1974) -- Limits (1981) -- Marigolds (1985) -- II A Family Life -- Kinship (1981) -- Prayer Before Birth (1985) -- The Waking (1972) -- Autobiography -- Land Without Customs (1960) -- The Circumcision (1974) -- Alison Jane Skelton (1962) -- A Son Sleeping (1958) -- Triptych (1981) -- Heritage (1981) House Tour (1981)Landmarks (1979) -- III Messages from A Different Mountain -- Messages (1985) -- IV Love Making -- The Gift (1972) -- The Hearing (1973) -- The Woman (1962) -- A Chain of Daisies (1962) -- A Leaf of Privet (1988) -- Palimpsest (1985) -- The Resolution (1977) -- By the Lake (1972) -- Suppose (1972) -- Erosion (1972) -- Night Poem, Vancouver Island (1964) -- Donâ#x80 #x99 t Get Me Wrong (1988) -- V Closer Now for Her -- The Separation (1977) -- Overture (1974) -- Everything (1996) -- Openings (1988) -- Making a Poem for Christmas (1988) Names (1996)Woodtown Manor, Dublin (1974) -- Quaternion (1961) -- Your Mistake (1985) -- The Ball (1956) -- Robert Graves in Deya, Mallorca (1974) -- VI Letters to the Dead -- Wood (1979) -- Begging the Dialect (1960) -- A Ballad of Billy Barker (1965) -- On the Eve of All Hallows (1966) -- To Norman Nicholson (1992) -- Letter to Nicholas (1995) -- For William Stafford (1997) -- Death (1997) -- Clare Abbey (1966) -- 24.iii.88 (1988) -- About Robin Skelton -- About Harold Rhenisch -- Acknowledgements: A Blessing of Friends In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a black hat that looked as if it came from a Venetian gondolier but was really picked up at the re-enactment of a Cariboo Gold Rush-era general store in Barkerville, B.C. In this selection of his best verse there are poems of "high" and "low" art, spells and prayers, meditations, shemanic maps, and, in the centre of the book, "messages," those strange, inspired "gifts" at the core of Skelton's art. In making the selection for this volume, editor Harold Rhenisch, himself an accomplished poet, has held to the image that Skelton's themes repeat like the ripples of water spreading out from a pebble dropped into a pool, and has attempted to bring together the best ripple from each dropped pebble. In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a black hat that looked as if it came from a Venetian gondolier but was really picked up at the re-enactment of a Cariboo Gold Rush-era general store in Barkerville, B.C. In this selection of his best verse there are poems of "high" and "low" art, spells and prayers, meditations, shemanic maps and, in the centre of the book, "messages," those strange, inspired "gifts" at the core of Skelton's art. In making the selections for this volume, editor Harold Rhenisch, himself an accomplished poet, has held to the image that Skelton's themes repeat like the ripples of water spreading out from a pebble dropped into a pool, and has attempted to bring together the best ripple from each dropped pebble