Crow's breath / John Kinsella.
Publication details: Melbourne Victoria : Transit Lounge, 2015.Description: 207 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781921924811
- 1921924810
- A823.3 23
- PR9619.3.K55 C76 2015
Author is a resident of W.A.
The eagle -- The plough star and the fence -- Farm scenes -- The receptionist -- The water carrier: a report -- Shame -- On display -- The little flower of forest pool -- Metronome -- A particular friendship -- Crow's breath -- Monitor -- Sleeper -- The tip -- Abacus -- Shine your light on me -- Statue -- Feeding the dogs -- Binoculars -- The thin veil -- Need of assistance -- In necrospect -- Golden gloves -- The new machinery shed/the new pastoral -- Formal attire, or Benighted -- Five bucks for gas -- Dirty snow.
A man who never sleeps takes a cross-continent train journey into landscape and memory. A gregarious woman and a reclusive man move to an Irish village where history and tradition (the famine pit nearby, the festival of Halloween) enact their dark forces. In an Australian town dying from the encroachment of salinity, a young girl attempts to bring life to a dead dog. Whether documenting love or horror -- or finding quotidian absurdities in Australia or the world -- the powerful stories in 'Crow's breath' capture the precariousness of everything we most value with unsettling tenderness and beauty.