Ripping down half the trees /
"Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change. One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Metro
- Bloor-Yonge
- The Ron from bottom up
- If homelessness is a sandwich, our culture of silence is the bread
- All the friends at the party
- The Huldufólk meet Coyote
- The violent orange hours
- This falls deeper than rocks
- Just over the mountain from Yaqui, Arizona
- Invaders: Mystery Space Ridersor, An ode to Alan Kurdi
- Of course you do find spicy bits
- Colonialism for dummies
- Northwestern
- Facing Fort William's Orphanage
- Deciduous with answers
- Spore prints
- Probable cause misjudgment of altitude
- How to pluck pheasant
- How to clean walleye
- How to pick blueberries
- Today the twelve gauge
- The fox
- In the least desired corner
- How to make a skull from the headof a bear delivered Tuesday in a grocery bag to the afternoon office meeting
- All it takes is an artist and a knife
- The boreal
- Note to the people using old needles stolen from a public bathroom
- Valhalla
- This isn't about me or a title
- Sioux Lookout
- A synonym for raft is foundation
- Beyond ear but open
- Lunch meeting like spruce grouse
- How to stay alive on the streetsof Sioux Lookout
- A Kingfisher named Bear
- Chiffon unfinished
- How to respond to hostility
- Another death at the Learning Centre
- Dermis to gold
- Even if the child's lost, mothers neverlose the title
- It's no real pleasure in lifeor, How to view the kids at night
- Bear paw and beast
- How to write a poem aboutdead children
- Barbless
- How to fly home
- None have bled on these streetsmore than Jim
- Indivisible by all the rips
- My prose poem from inside the precinct
- This cannot be homage in verse
- Re ember
- Red Lake 23
- The appropriate views of morning
- Dysmorphia
- In a small northern town
- Lines on Larae leaving
- To the boy pounding on our back door at midnight
- To the man stabbed last week behindmy back fence
- Sometimes the storm wins
- Pottery, an impossibility
- Note to Readers
- Notes
- Acknowledgments