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 Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy (2012) selects 100 poems from all three anthologies

Spanish-English bilingual edition

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From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move

Enough by Chris Martin Carcanet coloured lightsThese Hymns sprung from two sources: French mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Hymn of the Universe and the Aboriginal tradition of Songlines. The former is a book that posits humanity (and science, elsewhere) as the mouthpiece of the universe. Martin agrees with that, insomuch as we sing the universe back to itself, creating a working circuit of existence and expression. This is where Songlines come in. Traditionally, Aboriginal children would