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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
© 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
“it’s an evening warm as your unfinished conversation” 19
Oldest and Most Loyal American Friend 29
