Open House.

Cover -- Author biography -- Also by David Brooks -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Place on Earth -- A Place on Earth -- The Thick of It -- Poem -- Rats, Lice and History -- Looking for a Friend in the Mountainsand Not Finding Her -- No Poem for Weeks Now -- Dust -- Hades -- Tinnitus -- At the University -- Her Feet -- The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto -- Crows -- Vivaldi: Concerto for Cello, Stringsand Basso Continuo -- Winter Longing Poem -- The Ten Towns Down -- Night Rain -- Croesus -- September -- September -- Eagles -- Wasps -- Nona -- Carmen 192 -- On First Hearing of a Friend's Illness -- Swallows -- Priest -- Pumpkins on the Koper Road -- August -- Ljubljana in the Sun -- The Landing -- The River -- The Swan -- Olives -- Pears -- A Month of Seven Funerals -- Late Music -- Apricots -- Witness -- Open House -- In the Kingdom of Shadows -- Spiders About the House -- Eight Mile -- A Call from Mandelstam -- Indian Mynahs -- Looking for Andrei Gromyko -- Phasmid -- Ninox strenua -- Open House -- The Barbarians -- Freight -- Cold Mountain -- The Plover -- Jennifer's Mound -- Carmen 193 -- The Roo Field -- 'We pass a town empty of people' -- Captain Hunter and the Petrels -- Majesty -- How to Ride a Horse -- At the Lytton Hotel, -- Plenitude -- The Gate -- Wild Ducks -- Report from Blue Mountains -- Another Page from the Book of Everything -- Beauty and the Beast -- Mist -- If Anyone Asks for Me -- The Man in the Lift -- Broad Bean Meditation -- Report from Blue Mountains -- Lamplight -- 'Windmill' -- The Motherboard -- Midsummer -- Money Like Water -- At Refuge -- Morning, Station Street -- Silent Night -- White Cockatoos -- Cock-crow -- Black Dog -- Night Waking -- Who I Am -- Reading to the Sheep -- Ark -- Hidden Valley -- Accomplishment -- Ram in the Rain -- Mort Street -- Reading to the Sheep -- Mountain Night.

Orpheus -- Birthday Poem -- Humans at the Gate -- The Ornamental Cherry -- Driving Home -- Afterthought -- The Lambs -- Autumn Twilight -- Mushroom Season -- Each Other's Tongue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

The poems in this striking new collection take a number of forms, drifting between nature and philosophy, evoking a meditative quality that is both contemplative and full of grace. Spare and honed, David Brooks's poems range in scale, from investigations into microscopic detail observing the smallest creatures and textures underfoot as well as the telescopic, revealing the smallness of human endeavor from a thoughtful distance. This volume is at once powerful, resonant, and unreserved.

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