Wow by Bill Manhire
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Geomantic consciousness

consciousness

as Alan Buckley says in ‘Script’

Huidobro produced his two masterpieces

how exactly Darwin came up with his theory of evolution

Wow by Bill Manhire <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Geomantic consciousnessBill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature's comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says 'Wow', and the wonder is real at the world and