Mezzaluna. Michele Leggott

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       mezzaluna

      Also by Michele Leggott

       Poetry

      Vanishing Points (2017)

      Heartland (2014)

      Mirabile Dictu (2009)

      Journey to Portugal (2007)

      Milk & Honey (New Zealand 2005, United Kingdom 2006)

      As far as I can see (1999)

      DIA (1994)

      Swimmers, Dancers (1991)

      Like This? (1988)

       Criticism

      Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers (1989)

       As Editor

      with coeditor Martin Edmond, Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Poems 1968–2002 by Alan Brunton (2013)

      Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (2003)

      with Alan Brunton and Murray Edmond, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960–1975 (2000)

      The Book of Nadath by Robin Hyde (1999)

      The Victory Hymn by Robin Hyde (1995)

       Audio Recording

      Michele Leggott: New Zealand Poets, The Laureate Series (2009)

      MEZZALUNA

       selected poems

      Michele Leggott

      Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2020 Michele Leggott

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill

      Illustration by Gabrielle Olivia Hill

      Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Leggott, Michele J., author.

      Title: Mezzaluna : selected poems / Michele Leggott.

      Description: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2020] | Series: Wesleyan poetry | Summary: “The selected poems of award-winning and critically acclaimed New Zealand poet Michele Leggott” — Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019033201 (print) | LCCN 2019033202 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819579072 (paperback) | ISBN 9780819579089 (ebook)

      Classification: LCC PR9639.3.L45 A6 2020 (print) | LCC PR9639.3.L45 (ebook) | DDC 821/.914 —dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033201

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019033202

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      Poems in Mezzaluna from the following

      previously published books are all

      © Michele Leggott and are used with

      permission of Auckland University Press:

      Swimmers, Dancers (1991), DIA (1994),

      As far as I can see (1999), Milk & Honey (2005),

      Mirabile Dictu (2009), Heartland (2014),

      and Vanishing Points (2017).

      Front cover illustration: Fluff in the Wind by Gabrielle Olivia Hill, 2019.

      for those who travel light and lift darkness

      Contents

       Like This?

       “on white you fall” 3

       Watermelon World 4

       27 5

       An Island 6

       Withywind 14

       “think this” 16

       Road Music 17

       “it’s an evening warm as your unfinished conversation” 19

       Garbo in a Gown 21

       Swimmers, Dancers

       Dear Heart 25

       Colloquy 28

       Oldest and Most Loyal American Friend 29

       Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers 31

       Merylyn or Tile Slide or Melete 36

       Tigers 40

       DIA

       “Where exactly are we?” 45

       Micromelismata 46

       Blue Irises 47

       dia 47

       honeybee 54

       ladies mile 61

       Keeping Warm 68

       As far as I can see

       dove 73

       hesperides