The poems gathered in 'Dearly' are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
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ISBN:9780771000775
ISBN:0771000774
ISBN:9780771000799
Physical Description:print regular print 124 pages ; 23 cm
I. Late poems -- Ghost cat -- Salt -- Passports -- Blizzard -- Coconut -- Souvenirs -- The tin woodwoman gets a massage -- If there were no emptiness -- II. Health class (1953) -- A genre painting -- Princess clothing -- Cicadas -- Double-entry slug sex -- Everyone else's sex life -- Betrayal -- Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday -- Cassandra considers declining the gift -- Shadow -- Songs for murdered sisters. 1. Empty chair -- 2. Enchantment -- 3. Anger -- 4. Dream -- 5. Bird soul -- 6. Lost -- 7. Rage -- Coda: Song -- The dear ones -- Digging up the Scythians -- III. September mushrooms -- Carving the Jacks -- A drone scans the wreckage -- Aflame -- Update on werewolves -- Zombie -- The aliens arrive -- Siren brooding on her eggs -- Spider signatures -- At the translation conference -- IV. Walking in the madman's wood -- Feather -- Fatal light awareness -- Fear of birds -- Short takes on wolves -- Table settings -- Improvisation on a first line by Yeats -- "Heart of the Arctic" -- Plasticene suite. 1. Rock-like object on beach -- 2. Faint hopes -- 3. Foliage -- 4. Midway Island albatross -- 5. Editorial notes -- 6. Sorcerer's apprentice -- 7. Whales -- 8. Little robot -- 9. The bright side -- Tracking the rain -- Oh children -- The twilight of the gods -- This fiord looks like a lake -- V. One day -- Sad utensils -- Winter vacations -- Hayfoot -- Mr. Lionheart -- Invisible man -- Silver slippers -- Within -- Flatline -- Disenchanted corpse -- Dearly -- Blackberries.
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