Paul Petrie
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Paul Petrie - The Collected Poems
"Rooms of Grace" - Selected Poems
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Introduction
At the Edge of the World and Falling
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Part 1
At the Edge of the World and Falling
November Wind
Darkness' Song
They Cry in my Dreams
Pity Song
Someone's Birds
Home Movie
All the Lonely People
Quatrains
The Revisionists
River Song
Minor Elegy
The Burial
Games at Dusk
The Death of the Secret Agent
In the Basement
Arrivals and Departures
Aerobic Song
Birthday Song
Part 2
Song of the Looking Glass
Spider Song
Song of the Childless Woman
The Death of Couperin
The Man who Hated Heaven
The Lorelei
Burning the Love Letters
The Mutability of Moonlight
Eurydice Welcomes Orpheus into the Underworld
March
Condolences
House Mouse
On the Advantages of Being Buried with Your Dogs
Penelope's Song
Excavation
Ghost Song
Christina Rossetti's Dream
Emily Bronte to Her Absent God
Carlyle and the Roosters
Part 3
Depression at the Sea Resort
The Downpour
The Dark Season
Triad
Legend
Noah
On Listening to the St Matthew Passion
Retrospective
God on His Sleepless Nights
The Sunken Cathedral
Memory's End
The Moment
The Question
The Thaw
The Double Tree
Rooms at the End of Hallways
The Round
Time Song
Posthumous Poems
Copyright
Posthumous Poems-- Introduction
1. Collages
Bi-Polar Autumn
Rumors of War
Two Fragments in Minor Keys
The Descensions of Winter
The Journey
The Effacements of the Past
Spirit Flight
Lucky Morning in June
2. Seasons
The Mourning Doves
The Pond
The Weather Report
The Revolt of the Trees
Valentine's Day Flood
After the March Ice Storm
The Hard Rain
The Joys of Almost
Small Birds
Inscriptions in April
Paradise at a Glance
The Too Beautiful Season
3. First Person Singular
Envy
On Closing the Novel
Ghosts
The Daily Times
The Gambler
The Beckoning
Footprints
A Brief for Love-Making
Going on a Binge
Today
4. Other Lives
On the Advantage of Not Being Gifted
The Sceptic Speaks
From the Pessimist's Notebook
Identity Crisis
A Love Poem?
The Old Lover Laments
A Conceit
The Rich Man's Burden
Advice to the Elder Brother of the Prodigal Son
The Last Will and Testament of a Tree
Borrowed Love
The Nine Commandments of Cats
Presents for a Royal Birthday
5. Emblems and Fantasies
The Trespassers
Requiem for a Stranger
End Game
The Cleaners
The Man Who Lost His Head
The Small House
The Cavern
The Walkers
6. The Face of Age
The Last Days of the Calendar
Each Morning
The Face of Age
Replaceable Parts
Writing About Death
The Difference
From the Dictionary in My Head
Confessions of a Football Junkie
Wisdom Says
The Half-full Cup of Age
Late Learner
7. Metaphysical Gossip
Heraclitus and Parmenides
Making Noise
The Gods
The Infinite Universe
Aromas
Reincarnation
The Second Gate
A Vision
Just For the Fun of It (children's poems)
I
A Warning for Small Children
Summer Scents
Farm Noises
The Traveler
Dietary
The Little People
There was a Crazy Daisy Man
Falling Asleep
Discipline
For the Love of Water
Cat and Mouse
New Addition
II
On the Way Home From School
Walking in a Wood
The Child who Became a Giant
Visiting Relations
On the Proper Treatment of Tigers
Unjust Punishment
The Platypus
Swinging
The Man on the Hill
III
Growing Pains
Cautionary Tales
If I Were a Bird
Sledding
The Fruits of Wisdom
The Polar Bear
The Nubblies
Magic
Snowfall
Prayer Meeting
Convalescence
IV
Turnabout
The Secret Place
Nothing Song
Ancestry
House Wren
The Animals Come to a High Society Tea
In Praise of Books
March TIme
The Land of Contraries
The Dragon in My Basement
The Lost Crown
The Young Witch and the Broomstick (Part I)
The Young Witch and the Broomstick (Part II)
Reviews and Praise
On Nonconformists and Strange Gravity - The Life and Work of Paul Petrie (Poetry Magazine, April 2013)
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External Links
Paul Petrie's poems in "Poetry"
Paul Petrie's poems in "The New Yorker"
Paul Petrie's poems in "The Poetry Kit"
Paul Petrie in "The Writer's Almanac"
"Rooms of Grace: New and Selected Poems by Paul Petrie" on Google Books
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