I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
Over the roofs of the world.
The beating of my heart the passing of blood and air through my lungs.
Roofs are one of the most if not the most important aspects of a building.
They protect us from the elements and help preserve a building s structural integrity.
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The roof of the world or top of the world is a metaphoric description of the high region in the world also known as high asia.
Using nature as both model and metaphor toronto resident olive senior delves into birds flying and caribbean life in her third book of poems.
I depart as air i shake my white locks at the runaway sun.
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
Over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me.
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I too am not a bit tamed i too am untranslatable.
The smoke of my own breath echoes ripples and buzzed whispers my respiration and inspiration.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Praise for over the roofs of the world olive senior s over the roofs of the world is a richly crafted cunning and precise collection of poems.
Praise for over the roofs of the world olive senior s over the roofs of the world is a richly crafted cunning and precise collection of poems.
The songs found here move gently through the world and summon grace judges citation 2005 governor general s literary award for poetry.
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow d wilds.
Over the roofs of the world.
The songs found here move gently through the world and summon grace judges citation 2005 governor general s literary award for poetry.
The term usually refers to the mountainous interior of asia including the pamirs the himalayas the tibet the tian shan and the altai mountains.
Over the roofs of the world is perhaps the perfect title for the third book of poetry from writer and journalist olive senior who divides her time between toronto and her native jamaica.
Evoking as it does both whitman s barbaric poetic proclamation and the weightlessness of flight the title encapsulates the range of the collection from its colourful celebration of birds and the natural world to its playful reckoning with the western canon.
Following her much loved collections gardening in the.
There s a reason that providing shelter for someone is referred to as putting a roof over their heads the world s best roofs however do more than provide shelter.
The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves and of the shore and darkcolored sea rocks.
Following her much loved collections gardening in the tropics and talking of trees this long awaited book of poems is sure to delight readers around the world.