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Flame

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C.D. Wright
2011
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "Flame" by C.D. Wright (USA) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

Table of Contents

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Title Page

pp. i-ii

Contents

pp. 1

Flame

pp. 2-3

What Keeps

pp. 4-5

Gift of the Book

pp. 6-7

Privacy

pp. 8

only the crossing counts.

pp. 9-11

elation washed over our absence toward everything in the increasing darkness.

pp. 12

Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand

pp. 13-15

Like a Prisoner of Soft Words

pp. 16-21

Like Having a Light at Your Back You Can’t See But You Can Still Feel

pp. 22-27

Poem with Evening Coming On

pp. 28-29

Country Station Poem

pp. 30-31

Poem with a Dead Tree

pp. 32-33

Poem in Which Her Mortgage Comes Due

pp. 34

One night last summer

pp. 35-37

Unconditional Love Song

pp. 38-39

Obscurity and Elegance

pp. 40

Obscurity and Empathy

pp. 41-48

Poet's information

pp. 49

Copyright Page

pp. 50
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