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Tables of Contents for The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
International Finalists
Open Closed Open
The Amen Stone
5
1
I Foretell the Days of Yore
6
6
Houses (Plural); Love (Singular)
12
5
Selected Poems
[I'd speak if I wasn't afraid of inhaling]
17
1
(I may never see the Vatican or Troy]
18
1
[The wildness of the flower is all in the tone]
19
1
[Three bags of gold, a fairytale-]
20
1
[God is already ahead and waiting: the future is full.]
21
1
[Zero built a nest]
22
1
[Go on out but come back in]
23
1
[Rain-red rhododendron tree-]
24
1
[Into the forest I went walking-to get lost]
25
1
[I won't be able to write from the grave]
26
3
Learning Human
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
29
2
The Quality of Sprawl
31
2
Nocturne
33
1
The Tin Wash Dish
34
1
The Cows on Killing Day
35
2
The International Terminal
37
4
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems
[Voices, scored into]
41
3
[With wine and being lost, with]
44
1
[Flung wood]
45
1
[Crackpots, decomposing]
46
1
[The sight of the songbirds at dusk,]
47
1
[Coincidence staged, the signs all]
48
1
[Here are the industrious]
49
1
[O little root of a dream]
50
5
Canadian finalists
Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas: Nine Visits to the Mythworld
The Way the Weather Chose to Be Born
55
12
Men in the Off Hours
Epitaph: Zion
67
1
New Rule
68
1
Father's Old Blue Cardigan
69
1
TV Men: Sappho
70
2
TV Men: Lazarus
72
4
Epitaph: Thaw
76
3
Another Gravity
Sometimes a Voice (1)
79
2
Lift
81
1
Drag
82
1
Forest Moon
83
1
Song for the Song of the White-Throated Sparrow
84
1
Glide
85
1
Luna Moth Meditation
86
1
Feather
87
1
The Book of Moonlight
88
1
About the Poets and Translators
89
4
Acknowledgements
93