Chorale at the Crossing

by Peter Porter

Overview

The last word from one of our wisest and most compassionate poets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509803019
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	11/19/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	455 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Porter has published 16 books of poems, plus four further volumes with the Australian painter, Arthur Boyd. Porter died in 2010 at the age of 81.

Table of Contents

Introduction Sean O'Brien vii

First Poem of the Last Book 1

After Schiller 2

Goodbye to All Cats 3

Gawping at Geckos 5

From Scribblings on the 'Two Cultures' 6

Random Ageist Verses 7

A Toccatina of Galuppi's 9

A Fierce Flower 10

Dorothea Tanning: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in Tate Modern 11

Breakfast at Tiffany's 12

Another "Fat Boy Special", Bitte. There's A War On Herr Reger. 13

A Chip Off the Old Blog 14

Lines for an English Heine 15

Letter to John Kinsella 18

A Daughter's Life 20

A Swinburne Sugar Rush 22

Du Holde Kunst 23

Australian Literary Graffiti 24

The Long March of Cornelius Cardew 27

The Novelist's Visitors 29

It's the Gravity, Stupid 31

Look-Alikes 32

A Versatile Myth 33

A Perfect Suicide 34

On the Best Battlefields No Dead Bodies 35

Poem Shorter Than its Epigraph 37

The Singverein of Abstinence 38

Some Men in Starbucks 39

Your Considerate Stone 40

The Downside 41

Silkworms Work and Love Till Death 42

Ex Abrupto 43

The Castaway is Washed Ashore 44

An Absolutist Chorale 47

Salon of Lost Masterpieces 48

For Christine 49

A Chorale at the Crossing 51

Hermit Crab 53

Afterword Christine Porter 55