A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking is about memory — memory as a poetic form through which refractions of loss, recovery, discovery and identity form an imaginative reshaping of the past. In raw brushstrokes, Robinson records the slow cascade of events and characters slipping through the thin membrane of experience, shaping our histories. At the same time, he experiments with style and form in a wonderfully sinuous writing. With this, his first book, Robinson makes a staggering debut on the North American literary stage.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Poems Edited by Jill Battson" --T.p. verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459309326 1895837863
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.R63
- LCCN Item number
- R83 2001eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (104 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00211065 (OCoLC)288128802 (CaOOCEL)407977
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Table of contents 8
- One — a ruckus of awkward stacking 14
- the language of flowers 16
- landscape architecture 17
- late june 19
- geranium 20
- notes towards a garden glossary 21
- i. axil 21
- ii. runner 22
- iii. thatch 23
- iv. stipling 24
- v. rhizome 25
- cash register view 26
- home again, summer 27
- parking lot pastoral 28
- from the ocean, inland 29
- Two — a sort of lip-read language 30
- still 32
- abstract 33
- morning flight 34
- katie, christmas, 1900 j.k.b 35
- poem; or, 18 lines on desire 37
- fever 38
- the morning as continuation 39
- Three — scleroderma 40
- spring 42
- dash 8 43
- another flight 44
- hospital recliner 45
- thick with congealed cream 46
- at the funeral home 48
- new gravestone in winter 49
- burial 51
- kicking away at it 53
- sea wall, york redoubt 55
- drifting 57
- a comforting archaeology, this 58
- becoming earth 59
- 13 ways of looking at fish, after 61
- october, once removed 62
- picture postcard seagull, Peggy's cove 63
- she drank tea 64
- Four — like ticker-tape 66
- road trip 68
- fingernails 70
- the park 71
- anthem 72
- house league photo 73
- when skates break 74
- dressing-room religion 75
- why football, Sundays 77
- snow 78
- trees in ice 79
- threshold 80
- winter airport mythology 81
- newly 82
- steaking halibut 83
- voyeur 84
- tectonics 85
- a move to liquid 86
- apostrophe: a mess of floor 88
- snow; a fear of dying 89
- winter felt 91
- Five — other dissociative disorders 92
- morning, laundry 94
- a child's toy, in the grass 95
- i imagine middle age; paint with my hands 97
- localization of memory 98
- a consequence of liquor 99
- what we sometimes mistake as love: the right hand of a pioneer radiologist, 1932 100
- a death of neurons 102
- the hagiography of photographs 103
- an idea of morning 104
- Notes on the Poems 105
