Richard Tillinghast
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An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Forgetting and Remembering
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published
2012
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8 editions
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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture
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published
2008
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3 editions
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Today in the Cafe Trieste
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published
1997
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3 editions
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Six Mile Mountain: Poems
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published
2000
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Blue If Only I Could Tell You
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Our Flag Was Still There: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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published
1984
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2 editions
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Night Train to Memphis
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The Stonecutter's Hand
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published
1995
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3 editions
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The Knife and Other Poems
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published
1980
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3 editions
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The New Life
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published
2008
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“It is gloomy,
especially in the rain,
the waterways with mist rising off them,
memories of past visits here
and earlier loves--
ghost smudges barely glimpsed,
dripping alleys,
steps dissolving into water,
old ladies behind curtains,
eating off trays,
lives that have themselves become riddles.
Then it changes overnight.
The salt breezes open one's nostrils to delight,
the tourists are suddenly not
so dowdy and badly dressed.
The canals glitter that famous jade green.
The motoscafi fly their tricolor pennants bravely, and the sky is once again
that cerulean blue the painters loved.”
―
especially in the rain,
the waterways with mist rising off them,
memories of past visits here
and earlier loves--
ghost smudges barely glimpsed,
dripping alleys,
steps dissolving into water,
old ladies behind curtains,
eating off trays,
lives that have themselves become riddles.
Then it changes overnight.
The salt breezes open one's nostrils to delight,
the tourists are suddenly not
so dowdy and badly dressed.
The canals glitter that famous jade green.
The motoscafi fly their tricolor pennants bravely, and the sky is once again
that cerulean blue the painters loved.”
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