The essential D.G. Jones

Synopsis

This Essential Presents The Most Important Lyrics From All Stages Of D.g Jones's Career. Editor Jim Johnstone Has Prepared A Critical Introduction Which Provides Context For Individual Poems And Explains The Progression Of Jones's Poetic Practice.-- The Sun Is Axeman (1961) -- Portrait Of Anne Hebert -- Northern Water Thrush -- Winterkill -- Odysseus -- Beautiful Creatures Brief As These -- Phases From Orpheus (1967) -- Music Comes Where No Words Are -- The Perishing Bird -- Stevie And Sea -- The Path -- The Stream Exposed With All Its Stones -- Under The Thunder The Flowers Light Up The Earth (1977) -- A Garland Of Milne -- Spring Flowers -- That's It -- I Annihilate -- Winter Comes Hardly -- A Throw Of Particles (1983) -- Tremor -- Between Wars -- Balthazar And Other Poems (1988) -- The Pioneer As Man Of Letters -- Fatigue At Night -- The Floating Garden (1995) -- A Thousand Hooded Eyes -- Wild Asterisks In Cloud (1997) -- Singing Up The New Century -- Stumblesong -- The Cut Back Beds -- Grounding Sight (1999) -- Epistolary -- Grounding Sight -- Praise -- Uncollected -- Ideas Of The End Og The World -- Goldfinchen -- The Docks Have Been Hauled Out -- Suddenly. Selected By Jim Johnstone. Includes Bibliographical References.