In this Ottawa writer’s first volume of verse, there are trees, of course—catalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks. There is music, too—a whorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is reenacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction.
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- W67 2004eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 7
- I: Songs from the French 12
- Flight into Egypt 14
- Love Song from a Medieval Manuscript 15
- Deux déjeuners sur l'herbe 17
- I. Monet 17
- II. Manet 18
- Two Songs from the French 19
- I. Aubade 19
- II. Living for Love 20
- In the Botanical Gardens of Paris 21
- The-Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian 23
- The Black Door 24
- Nana and Trick 25
- II: Time Passing Through Gardens and Fields 26
- My Son Opening a Watermelon 28
- June 29
- Bodies of Rain 30
- Time PassingThrough Gardens and Fields 31
- Close to the Green New Equinox 32
- In Platt Fields Park 34
- How the Berries Bled 35
- View from the Void 36
- Words for Trees 37
- Birds in the Bare of November 40
- Hive 41
- Tangoing at the Solstice 42
- Grief Work 43
- Rondeau 44
- The Time for Unfolding 45
- Solstitial 47
- Lady of Seven Sorrows 49
- While We Are Old 50
- On the Fringes of Hurricanes 51
- Safe Outside 52
- III: Rhythms and Algorhythms 54
- Soundtrack for Small Tulips 56
- Algorhythms 57
- Cat and String Quartet 58
- Clarinet Flesh 60
- For Unaccompanied Cello 61
- Simple as Twilight 62
- Bruissement 63
- IV: "Ce qui ne se retrouve jamais, jamais" 64
- For What Can Never Ever Be Refound 66
- Ulrike 67
- Pharaoh's Daughter 69
- Flesh and VoIce 70
- For the Stranger in the Field 73
- The Colour of Time 74
- V: Dreaming Drowning 76
- Tear Water Pooling 78
- Dreaming Drowning 81
- What the Water TellsYour Skin 83
- Les baigneuses I 84
- Les baigneuses II 85
- VI: Lent 86
- Good Friday in Fallowfield 88
- I. Parsifal's Meadow 88
- II.The Sky's the Colour of Grace 89
- Purple 90
- Beyond Beyond 91
- Stone Mother 92
- Revelation in Roxbury 93
- Living Like Matisse 94
- Déjà Vu 95
- Ending Empty 96
- Wasting 97
- VII: Easter in the Loire Valley 98
- Ponds Gone Wild 100
- Pagoda at Chanteloup 101
- Souvigny en Touraine 102
- Walled Gardens in Amboise 104
- Aquifers 105
- Easter Waters 107
- VIII: Writing with Light 108
- Per Ardua 110
- Fools 111
- Camera-Body 115
- WrIting with Light 116
- Resonance 117
- Gloria 118
- Sursum Corda 119
- Dark Room 120
- IX: Time's Flesh 122
- L'écorchée vive 124
- Id 125
- Private Eye 126
- Bitch-Poem 127
- Gendering 128
- Time's Flesh 129
- Un-Building 130
- A Sudden Cold 131
- X: Baudelaire's Deaths 132
- i. Upstairs, in the Quiet Bordel 134
- ii. All Those Little Deaths 135
- iii. Baudelaire, Prince of Poems 136
- XI: Summer in Fallowfield 138
- Bells 140
- Sunflowers 141
- Authority 142
- Sunday Morning in Fallowfield 143
- Notes 144
- Acknowledgements 148
