A Day's Grace - Poems 1997-2002

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Poems 1997-2002 by Robyn Sarah presents a curated collection of lyric work arranged through a detailed table of contents. The volume moves across contemplative subjects, seasonal imagery, letters and replies, and reflective pieces framed by personal memory and time. Its selection includes titled poems such as “Only a Child, Alone,” “A Solstice Rose,” “The Face,” and later meditations spanning numerous shorter and longer entries. The publication information emphasizes a Canadian literary press origin and reserved rights for reproduction.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages88

Reading Time2 h 16 min

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Table of Contents

Only a Child, Alone

A Solstice Rose

Circular

Letter in Reply to Linda's from Yangshuo

Spring Song

Cipher

The Face

Salvages

Poem

Rattled

Moments on a Balcony

Annual

Riveted

Did You Ever

To a Daughter in Her Twentieth Year

Baggage

The Orchestre du Conservatoire Rehearses in Salle St-Sulpice

The Plunge

Microcosms

Windfall

Two Conversations about Poetry

Ponte Vedra

Getting In Deeper

Afterthought

Surprised

Change

The Twentieth, Ending

Churlish Countdown

A Confused Heart

Tisha B'Av During Negotiations on the Status of Jerusalem

The Unharmed

Circa 2000

A Vision of the Future

Day

Time

Vidui

Fishless

Salve

A Silence

Old Tune

Hearth

Levels

Home

Sunny Days Following a Death in Midwinter

Tony's Sharpening

Bell

Day Visit

Bounty

The Circle

To N, in absentia

Here/There

The High Meadows

Acknowledgements

Robyn Sarah # ?A Day's Gracems I997-2002 Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2019 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/daysgracepoems190000sara A Day's Grace Poems I997-2002 Other Books by Robyn Sarah # Poetry Shadowplay(I978) The Space Between Sleep and Waking(I98I)Three Sestinas (I984) Anyone Skating On That Middle Ground (I984)Becoming Light(I987) The Touchstone:Poems New and Selected (I992)Questions About The Stars(I998) ## Short Stories A Nice Gazebo(I992)Promise of Shelter(I997) l Robyn SarahA Day's Grace" Poems I997-2002 858A769S National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Sarah,Robyn,I949- A day's grace:poems I997-2002/Robyn Sarah ISBN o-88984-233-7 I.Title. Ps8587.A7D392003C8II'.54C2003-905325-3 Copyright ◎Robyn Sarah,2003. I 2 3 4 ·0504 03 Published by The Porcupine's Quill,68 Main St.,Erin,ON NOB ITO.www.sentex.net/~pql Readied for the press by Eric Ormsby;copy edited by Doris Cowan. All rights reserved.No reproduction without prior written permissionof the publisher except brief passages in reviews.Requests for photocopying or other reprographic copying must be directed to AccessCopyright. Represented in Canada by the Literary Press Group.Trade orders are available from University of Toronto Press. We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and theCanada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.The financialsupport of the Government of Canada through the Book PublishingIndustry Development Program is also gratefully acknowledged.Thanks,also,to the Government of Ontario through the OntarioMedia Development Corporation's Ontario Book Initiative. ONTARIO ARTS COUNCILCONSEILDE5 ARTS DE L'ONTARIC Table of Contents Only a Child,Alone 9A Solstice Rose I3Circular I4 Letter in Reply to Linda's from Yangshuo I5Spring Song I6Cipher I7The Face I8Salvages 20Poem 2IRattled 22 Moments on a Balcony 23Annual 24Riveted 26Did You Ever 27To a Daughter in Her Twentieth Year 28 Baggage 29 The Orchestre du Conservatoire Rehearses in Salle St-Sulpice 31The Plunge 33Microcosms 34Windfall 36 Two Conversations about Poetry 37 Ponte Vedra 39 Getting In Deeper 40 Afterthought 4I Surprised 42 Change 43 The Twentieth,Ending 44 Churlish Countdown 45 A Confused Heart 46 Tisha B'Av During Negotiations on the Status of Jerusalem 48The Unharmed 49Circa 200050 A Vision of the Future 52Day 53Time 54Vidui 55Fishless 56Salve 57A Silence 58Old Tune 59Hearth 60Levels 6IHome 62 Sunny Days Following a Death in Midwinter 63Tony's Sharpening 64Bell 65Day Visit 67Bounty 68The Circle 69 To N,in absentia 72Here/There 73 The High Meadows 75Acknowledgements 77

FAQs

What is the main work collected in the volume titled A Day's Grace?

It is a poetry collection by Robyn Sarah, covering poems from 1997-2002 as indicated in the title and contents.

How is the book organized?

The book provides a Table of Contents listing individual poems with page numbers, covering many separate titled pieces.

Who is credited as the author and what publication details are shown?

Robyn Sarah is credited as the author, and the publication page includes copyright and publisher information from The Porcupine's Quill, along with acknowledgements for arts council support.

Sep 28, 2026

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