Happiness You are my little wolf, my naked man in the morning. You find my sad ankles like spurs that jingle jangle jingle. You are my tuxedo, my rose. The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness.With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You'll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can't stop crying.But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners.You won't forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm your heart.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770561892 1552451542
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.B682
- LCCN Item number
- R44 2005eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (85 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00223151 (OCoLC)549599976 (CaOOCEL)427561
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 9
- Hating Hungry People 12
- Hating Hungry People 14
- Gerald’s Wife Tina 15
- Our Prosthesis 16
- Love the Clown 17
- God in Winter 18
- Butterfly on a Wheel 19
- Small Words Inside Sleep 20
- The Photographer 21
- Lies to Herself 23
- Sentimental Poem About God 24
- On Buoyancy 25
- Lena and Her Father’s Yellow Finches 26
- His Peacock Shadow 27
- Bears in the City 29
- Purple Turtleneck 30
- Home 31
- The Fire-Eater and His Daughter 32
- Four Minutes 33
- The Molested in the Mirror 36
- Noni, Who Needed to Cry 38
- The Molested in the Mirror 39
- Intersection with Strawberries 40
- Cupboard 41
- Poem on the Stairs 42
- Urban Restaurant 43
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Jason Brown 44
- Song for a Salty Man Made of Stones 47
- Can Be Kind 48
- Lullaby for Martin 49
- Happiness 50
- The Fitting Room 51
- Toronto, City of Sad Faces 52
- Skin Poem 53
- Elegy for Atlas 54
- Trains 55
- First Husband 56
- The Foyer of Formal Feeling 58
- Riding Hood Reads the Suicide Note 60
- The Conversationalist 61
- The Foyer of Formal Feeling 62
- Love for Jennifer 63
- Rain and Lemon Cookies 64
- The Refrigerator Memory 65
- Little Pica 67
- House for Sale by Owner 68
- Dirty Rapunzel 69
- Brussels Sprout 71
- The Runaway Budgie 72
- Sunburn 73
- Snake and Bees 74
- The Hot-Air Balloon Operator and Her Brother 75
- Pelican 77
- Snowstorm 78
- The Father-Daughter Dance 79
- Triptych 80
