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"rob mclennan presents a collection of sharp, challenging prose poetry that asks what can be achieved if we try a little smaller. Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in mom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLennan, Rob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2022.
Colección:Brave & brilliant series ; no. 25.
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  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Beware the failure of imagination
  • My daughter is in New York City
  • Happy Holidays
  • Brockwell madrigal
  • Reading Ed Dorn in Vancouver
  • Three lines, overheard:
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • It's still winter
  • History of the fissure
  • Remembering John Newlove
  • My 1980
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • Ars poetica
  • The book of smaller
  • Birth story
  • Fifty words for Gwendolyn
  • February
  • On minimalism
  • Snow Moon, 2017
  • Poem, with errors
  • The President's House is empty
  • Darwin's finches
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • Origin story
  • The Prime Minister's House is empty
  • Wing, an ideal place
  • Lament
  • Journal entry
  • The book of smaller
  • Incremental
  • My 1975
  • Anne Carson, Short Talks
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • Journal entry
  • The Sainte-Adèle variations
  • It's still winter
  • Sentences my mother used
  • The untranslatable
  • Journal entry
  • Château Montebello
  • Postcard for Gil McElroy
  • Homestead
  • A child speaks to St. Augustine
  • It's still winter
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • Words borrowed from Nelson Ball
  • I live somewhere imaginary
  • It's still winter
  • Journal entry
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • Alta Vista story
  • Self-portrait, extant
  • It's still winter
  • Daylight savings
  • On the value of making
  • Map of the Niagara Frontier
  • Forty-seventh birthday
  • Great Barrington MA
  • Japanese poetic diaries
  • It's still winter
  • The ends of language
  • Spring journal
  • Failed senryū
  • Jennifer Kronovet, translated
  • Letter
  • Study of a fox
  • Title poem
  • Study of an April rain
  • Breaking news
  • Portrait of a deer
  • Plenary, Robert Kroetsch
  • Sustenance
  • The ends of maternity leave
  • Mother tongue
  • Christine, in the Halifax airport
  • The ends of maternity leave
  • Study of a fragment
  • The ends of the earth
  • Theory of Composition
  • Lorine Niedecker
  • The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
  • The Sainte-Adèle variations
  • Correspondence
  • Anne Carson, Short Talks
  • The books you need in five years
  • C.D. Wright, ShallCross
  • Before description
  • Potsdamer Strasse
  • Once up a time, in Picton
  • A sketch of a sketch of the Ottawa River
  • Anne Carson, Short Talks
  • Grasshopper Hill
  • Elegy for OC Transpo route #2
  • Christine, coastal
  • Elegy for Dave Russell
  • The Glengarry Highland Games
  • Policy.
  • C.D. Wright, ShallCross
  • 423 Alta Vista Drive
  • Where landscapes are preserved on canvas
  • A Confederate General in Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Solar Eclipse 2017
  • My father, at seventy-six
  • Emily Dickinson's hair
  • Deportations
  • My family's all in bed
  • Twenty-first century literature
  • Anne Carson, Short Talks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes