A poetic guide for Armageddon, this poetry collection moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to find love cast away at the end of days. The urban settings are counterbalanced with the idea of escape, deserted islands, and ocean solitudes. In this assemblage of playful, challenging, and beautiful poems, Jacqueline Turner uses the interrobang—a question mark combined with an exclamation point, the excited question—as a symbol of our times to move the work through a host of genres. Like notes washed ashore in bottles, this book seeks an exchange and its scope is as vast as the question of how to survive modernity.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems MisFit Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770903692 9781770411142
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.T836
- LCCN Item number
- E64 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (103 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233786 (OCoLC)868488226 (CaOOCEL)446769
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Copyright 4
- Table of Contents 6
- Section I: A CRITIQUE OF THE APOCALYPSE 8
- 11-11-11 9
- brought back down to earth with a bangor the day starts with a bang 10
- ENTROPIC ENDS 19
- INTEGRATED ABSENCES 31
- INTEGRATED ABSENCES II 41
- Section II: THEY LIE ABOUT THE WEATHER 49
- REPRISE FOR RAIN 50
- 53THE SUN WHEN IT HITS 51
- ALL HAIL 52
- 55MY PHONE SAYS 53
- LIVING EARTH — THE APP 54
- 57IRONIC CLIMACTIC ADORATION 55
- ENGLISH BAY CRANE 56
- FALSE CREEK CRANES 57
- DUNDARAVE CRANE 58
- SHANGRI-LA CRANE 59
- SFU CRANES 60
- YALETOWN CRANE 61
- CONTEMPLATIVE 62
- TRANSFORMATIVE 63
- PLAINTIVE 64
- MISSIVE 65
- PERSPECTIVE 66
- COLLECTIVE 67
- Section III: MONUMENTS TO AUDACITY 68
- 1. Monument: Propeller in the park at Horseshoe Bay 69
- 2. Monument: Tree encased in pavement, Granville Street 70
- 3. Monument: Log house, Magna Bay, British Columbia 71
- 4. Monument: Digital billboard — Burrard Street Bridge 72
- 5. Monument: Abstract dot works Eli Bornowsky paintings 73
- 6. Monument: Log carved “you are here,” Riley Park, Calgary, Alberta 74
- 7. Monument: Times Square, New York 75
- Section IV: THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 76
- FROM “A CASTAWAY” BY AUGUSTA (DAVIES) WEBSTER(1837–1894) 77
- FROM “THE CASTAWAY” BY WILLIAM COWPER(1731–1800) 79
- CASTAWAY SERIES, 9 PARTS [FOUND TEXT] + PRELUDETASMANIA 82
- CASTAWAY: CONTEMPORARY I 92
- CASTAWAY: CONTEMPORARY II 93
- PERPETUAL 94
- PERPETUAL OCEAN 95
- A CRITIQUE OF THE APOCALYPSE: CODA 96
- THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: CODAOn Midway 97
- REFERENCES 98
- NOTES 98
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 99
- Back Cover 100
