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    A Taste of Earth
    A Taste of Earth
    A Taste of Earth
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    A Taste of Earth

    By Daniel Sloate

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    The poetic vision of "A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame" is timeless. It is also a work rooted in the thought of our own era. Though man does not escape his predicament, our own era has perhaps made him more aware than ever before of his destiny. But here the poet's anguish cannot make him blind to the pro-digious beauty of a world in which the gods of salvation and redemption are absent. This collection is a superb expression of the intensity of this awareness. And the ultimate happiness that lies in knowing, in awareness is what Daniel Sloate illuminates for us in his poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 1981
    ISBN9781550713947
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      A Taste of Earth - Daniel Sloate

      DANIEL SLOATE

      A TASTE OF EARTH

      A TASTE OF FLAME

      Guernica

      Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.) 1981, 2012  

      A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame

      is the seventh volume

      in the Essential Poets series

      published by Guernica Editions.

      This book is dedicated to

      Robert, Laurence, and Ken

      CONTENTS

      Preface by Laurence LeCapelain

      Preface by Robert Walton

      Lines From A Face

      I had met you in many disguises

      There was a boy angling for shadows

      My children of light

      Eyes in a dream

      Then how did you see the wind

      When I write of you

      Violence has always been your shadow

      The sun, the winds, even the trees

      I stood with the wind

      The tree still stands

      Which of your ways

      The day you made me the gift

      I saw your face

      Some dust once said

      Summer stepped into your skin

      A future day will be kind

      Lines From Earth

      Life folded in the rocks

      The smell of time

      The long shadows melting

      The rains of music

      Light erodes a face I love

      Your birds build sun-castles

      Your ghost stands at the edge

      I saw night through the dawn

      Green music strewn on Earth

      For miles I followed time

      Folded in your airs the dreams come

      I see finality in the rose

      The sea again with you

      The bird falling that day

      The wind today carries me to you

      Suddenly, autumn.

      Their language whispers

      When I met the spider

      The weight of a bird's flight

      The whole night shy

      Fall mist has dissolved sun

      There are skeletons in the nest

      All your summer names

      All summer shrunk.

      PREFACE

      I

      Daniel Sloate is representative of those poets whose work becomes more certain, more deft as

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