How to Get Rid of the Layer of Snow single work   poetry   "First, you have to get rid of the layer of snow."
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 How to Get Rid of the Layer of Snow
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Notes

  • This poem is in ten numbered parts.

  • Epigraph:

     ‘Ah, that layer of snow of which you tell me! For a long
    time I too had it! But I turned it into the tablecloth my
    wife spread over our – pleasantly round – table in order
    to host ... so many incarnations of mud!’
                   Paul Celan (in an unsent letter to Rene Char, cited in Selections: Paul Celan, 
                   ed. Pierre Joris, 2005, p.185).

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Rabbit Rare no. 5 Winter 2012 6711870 2012 periodical issue 2012 pg. 63-66
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon States of Poetry - Tasmania Sarah Day (editor), Southbank : ABR Publications , 2017 14033985 2017 anthology poetry

    'Series Two of the Tasmanian States of Poetry anthology is edited by Sarah Day and features poems by Christiane Conésa-Bostock, James Charlton, Jim Everett-pularia meenamatta, Anne Kellas, Gina Mercer, and Ben Walter.' (Introduction)

         Southbank : ABR Publications , 2017
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