My Own Places.My Own Places Don Kerr University Of Calgary Press The University of Calgary Press is a university press that is part of the University of Calgary. External link
2500 University Drive, NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N IN4 1552381706 $24.95 www.uofcpress.com My Own Places: Poems On John Constable by Don Kerr (Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Noun 1. department of English - the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature English department academic department - a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject at the University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is a coeducational public research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The University is celebrating its centennial year in 2007. ) is a collection of free-verse poetry from brief lyric poems to extended narratives, all inspired by British landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837). Constable's work had a local quality that reflected his unwillingness to travel far from home. A handful of black-and-white and color images of Constable's artworks illustrate the collection. A soulful soul·ful adj. Full of or expressing deep feeling; profoundly emotional. soul  ful·ly adv. reflection of serenity and contentment with one's lot.
"Sleight of Landscape": he pruned a tree / and chopped a
willow / enlarged a house / cut a gable / he planted trees / dug up a
hedge / moved a church / from here to there / and a windmill windmill, apparatus that harnesses wind power for a variety of uses, e.g., pumping water, grinding corn, driving small sawmills, and driving electrical generators. Windmills were probably not known in Europe before the 12th cent. too / drew
down clouds / out of thin air.
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