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Over the roofs of the world / Olive Senior.

by Senior, Olive.

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Insomniac Press, c2005.

Canadian poetry -- Black authors.

109 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-107).

The pull of birds -- The secret of capturing parrot -- The secret of taming parrot -- The secret of turning green parrot yellow -- The secret of flying close to the Sun without melting wings -- The secret of Crusoe's parrot -- The ultimate secret -- Rooster -- Hen -- Senseh -- Guinea hen -- Owl -- Hummingbird -- Woodpecker -- Parakeet -- Magpie -- Peacock tale, 1 -- Peacock tale, 2 -- Albatross -- Emperor penguin -- Ostrich -- The dance of cranes -- Allspice -- Discovery -- The birth of islands -- Message in a bottle -- Thirteen ways of looking at blackbird -- Misreading Wallace Stevens -- Rejected text for a tourist brochure -- Missing -- Here and there -- Blue -- Leaving home -- Lost tropic -- Blue magic carpet -- Moon -- I. Wild nester -- II. Ping Ya! -- III. Blue [actual symbol not reproducible]uit -- IV. White belly -- V. Blue foot traveller -- With my little eye ... -- Riddle -- Embroidery -- Penny reel -- White -- Lacemaker -- Pearl diver -- Basketmaker -- Bird-man / bird-woman -- Ode to Pablo Neruda.

"Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Caribbean life in her third book of poems."--BOOK JACKET.

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