An anabranch is a section of a river or stream that diverts from the main course and rejoins later. River running into Harrietville Trout Farm A river is a large natural waterway. ...
In the simplest case, an island or rock in the river creates a main course and an anabranch course, however this is perhaps too trivial. A serious anabranch would diverge for several kilometres before rejoining.
Deltas, where rivers flow into the sea branch into large numbers of courses, though these are not normally regarded as anabranches. Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ...
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On the Darling River in New South Wales, the river divides south of Menindee for a hundred kilometres before rejoining. The anabranch contains flowing water only in wetter years.
Anabranch, the sequel to Andrew Zawacki’s critically acclaimed By Reason of Breakings, is a record of philosophical movement into the world, a meditation upon its shadowy routes, and a requiem for what is lost along the way.
In a broken landscape defined by negation and an asymptotic relation to a divinity that might not exist, Zawacki pursues a poetics of intimacy, impelled by what the heart decides, and offers a visionary new way for being in the world.
Poems in Anabranch have been awarded both the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America.
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