Ether: Selected Poems

By Robert Darlington

Ether is Robert Darlingtons personally selected collection of his published and unpublished poems. Written between 1972 and 2006, these poems take the reader on a journey from blank verse to free verse; from sonnet to haiku. With Ether, Robert Darlington reveals his deep poetic vision and understanding of poetic forms. It is a poetry book that is both profound and easy to read, written in language that anyone can understand and appreciate.


Cover painting by Michael Hindman

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 18, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462801954

Robert Darlington

Robert Darlington has been publishing poems and songs for over thirty-five years. Robert studied poetry at California Sate University, Northridge with Robert Deutsch, who was a close friend of Delmore Schwartz and John Berryman, two of the finest poets of their generation. Robert’s poems have appeared in POEM, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and at numerous Internet sites. He is a member of the internationally known recording group Translator, and fourteen of his songs are featured on their four CD’s. Robert is a Tai Chi instructor when he isn’t writing or playing music. He lives with his wife and daughter in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Copyright © 2008 by Robert Darlington.

Cover painting by Michael Hindman

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Contents

In Articulo Mortis

Wherever We Are, Wherever We Go

Swans

Our Last Meeting

Always Dead, Always Dying

The Thunder of Bells

For Leyan

This Woman

Two Sketches From Inverness

Wandering

Winter Elegy

Black Against Black

With Sleep Now Far Away

Narcissus

I Will Still Be Here

Haiku

I Give These Days Wings

For Gisella Rota

A Wounded Bird Sings

Ether

Departure

Even Though Our Days Are Numbered Dreams

Beyond Our Window

The Passenger

Wedding

Holiday

River Ride

Late October

Return To Blood

Every Other Shadow

Bone and Fire

Red Moon

Standing Still

Sunday Morning

Because I Was Young

Everything You Are

Endless Miles

Your Face Is Raining Silver Birds

For Leyan and Jessery

Robert Darlington has been publishing poems and songs for over thirty-five years. Robert studied poetry at California State University, Northridge with Robert Deutsch, who was a close friend of Delmore Schwartz and John Berryman, two of the finest poets of their generation. Robert’s poems have appeared in POEM, The San Francisco