Paul Petrie

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    • Welcome
    • Life
    • Motifs and Style
    • Published Collections
    • Paul Petrie - The Collected Poems
    • "Rooms of Grace" - Selected Poems
    • New Collections
      • 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

    7. Metaphysical Gossip

    Heraclitus and Parmenides
    Making Noise
    The Gods
    The Infinite Universe
    Aromas
    Reincarnation
    The Second Gate
    A Vision

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