A World of Stone

New and Selected Poems

Mireille Saba Redford

• Éditeur: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Année: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781528984294
• Sujet: Literatur
• Sous-sujet: Europäische Poesie

From Mireille Saba Redford, author of A City Across the Night, The Waltz of Dust and The Wounded Virtue, and translator and editor of The Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, here is a new collection of English poems that will take you to a forgotten land where nothing seems to matter anymore.
A World of Stone adopts the voice of a woman who finds her life turned upside down when faced with the harsh realities of the modern world and clings to her childhood memories, when the land of legends was a truly mysterious and captivating place.
It highlights her love that could not overcome her pride, her loneliness caused by the many losses she has encountered, and her sorrows amidst the fast and sad changes in the world, such as humanitarian crises, drug abuse, violence, alienation, inequality, power in the hands of the few and abuse of human rights.
Throughout the poems, you will hear and feel all the torments, disappointments and cries which somehow have the power to change the way some perceive the world. However, there is a clear message that despite losing its 'gentility', the world can still have a 'Margin of Peace' that would guarantee its security and sustainability.
This book of love and anger, of the living and the dead, displays the values that once formed the very pillars of our society, and sends a call to restructure what is left and to stop the decline in civil liberties. Its vivid descriptions shed light on the poet's own experiences, while stressing the need both to save a world on the brink and to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable by a return to the humanitarian principles of equality and justice.

A Margin of Peace

(65 Haiku Poems)

A silvery moon

Ascends behind the mountain

A sweet sensation.

Lulling me to sleep

The scent of honeysuckle

The last of the storm.

A white cloud of winter

Moves like a snake overhead

Welcoming summer.

On a dull fall day

The ticking of the hall clock

Awakens the birds.

Dry mountains await

The coming of spring flowers

Coloured lines and shades.

A wind approaches

Wrinkling the water surface

Down at the seashore.

In the deep blue sea

Fairy mermaids lure the ships

Power to cast spells.

Totally immersed

You’ve turned my world upside down.

Great Barrier Reef!

The crunch of gravel

Pierces right through to my bones

Drawing me awake.

Trees in the shadow

Surrounded by sands and hills

Appear unyielding.

The widow spider

Makes a silk thimble-shaped web

A great masterpiece.

People and shadows

Cross memory at light speed

Leaving me stranded.

A fire dances

Providing me with relief

In the still moon night.

Watching the dry fields

A gust of wind sweeps over

Right into my face.

Up in the thick hills

Flakes of drizzle calm the place

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Table des matières

• About the Author
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• My Child
• Upside-Down
• The New Unicorn
• The Grey of Life
• My Genome
• A World of Stone
• Daily Testers
• A Cold Day in Hell
• Citizens of Our Own
• Tell Me, Pa!
• Self-Condemnation
• Time Machine
• Make Me Love You
• It All Started
• If There Is Tomorrow
• To Protect and Serve
• Magic Mirror
• A Moment of Humanity
• The Day I Die!
• Macrocosm
• Winter Nights
• Two Worlds Apart
• My Motto
• Burrill Lake (Sydney)
• Aurelia
• On a Cloud
• Rights and Obligations
• Defect of History
• On a Dream
• Interference
• Takers in the Night
• Because You Are Beirut!
• A Margin of Peace