There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger -- from Inheritance Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant. In the tradition of Karen Solie and Suzanne Buffam, and with a touch of Canadian Gothic, Dachsel's poetic skills unfold in a variety of brief and expansive forms. Authentic and controlled, full of complexity and disorder, her poems offer release despite their painful twists and topics. Readers across generations will find kinship in Dachsel's grief-fuelled and vulnerable words.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772124620 9781772124521
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.D213
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (63 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00978884 (OCoLC)1080519986 (CaOOCEL)457338
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 6
- Copyright page 7
- Dedication 8
- Epigraph 10
- Contents 12
- after the funeral 16
- spring 17
- sizzle 18
- illusion 19
- vermin 20
- inheritance 21
- our home needs to be painted 22
- self portrait 23
- alberta avenue 24
- the impossibility of fireflies 25
- klondike 26
- may is an uneasy month 27
- returning from seeing the man with the beard of bees 28
- our guilt stays with us 29
- good to keep busy 30
- neighbourly 31
- he always gave us the creeps 32
- my money’s on the magpie 33
- my mum’s grandmother had a terrible accident when she was a young mother 34
- grown up 35
- main & broadway 36
- hold on 37
- your light, your light 38
- a sonnet for middle-age mothers 39
- solstice 40
- gentle infestation 41
- mothering 42
- cavity 43
- clover point 44
- beached 45
- epithalamium 46
- check for spots 47
- yes, let’s 49
- the forties 50
- unfasten 51
- these days, those days 52
- accumulate 53
- now is the season of open windows 54
- shuswap july 55
- vanish 56
- plato island 57
- always with the fucking fish 58
- we both wore red lipstick 59
- obligatory road trip 60
- swing therapy 61
- before serious 62
- even bleach can’t remove the smell 64
- for phillis wheatley 65
- the birth of father yod 66
- roots 67
- keepsake 68
- last suppers 69
- arbutus 70
- there are not enough sad songs 71
- down under 72
- terminal 73
- new year’s day, 2015 74
- child 75
- Acknowledgements 78
- About the Author 80
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 81
