From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein and the art of Irving Penn and Georgia O'Keeffe, Lemay welcomes you into her home, her art and her life as a poet and photographer of the every day. Lemay shares visits to the museum with her daughter, the beauty in an average workday at the library, and encourages the budding writer. Take a long walk through the fragrance, the colours, the beauty and the simplicity Lemay brings to this pocket-sized collection of essays punctuated by moments of flowering. Make an appointment with flowers, and an appointment with life.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C814/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Essays Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781989287019 9781926794693
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.L435
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (135 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239258 (OCoLC)1052873618 (CaOOCEL)456619
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Epigraph 6
- The Flower Can Always Be Changing 8
- Poets Looking At Art 13
- Looking for a Quiet Poem 16
- Dinner at Irving Penn’s House 18
- Transcendence 19
- Self-Portrait 23
- The Bird Could Escape 24
- Library Dream 27
- The Light is Always Changing 28
- Empathy 31
- The Sublime Minimalism of the Painter at her Acme is Difficult to Replicate in Words 34
- Before Leaving on a Trip 35
- Precedence 36
- There’s a Trick with the Light I’m Learning to Do 39
- Photographer’s Dream 40
- A Piece of Cake 41
- My Prize Begonia 43
- An Imaginary System 44
- Submitting to a Daily Practice 45
- Keep Your Solitude 46
- My Griefs 49
- Civilized 54
- A Flower Held Up to the Light 55
- They Accepted the Dinner Invitation 58
- How Do You Come Up With Your Ideas? 59
- Cloudier 60
- A Few Things About Working at a Library 62
- The Book I Most Want Cannot Be Found on My Shelves 63
- Mourn Them All 64
- Tree Museum 65
- Poetry and Failure 68
- How Would You Feel? 69
- The Sugar Bowl Changes Every Day 70
- The Answer I Never Give 75
- Poet’s Musical Background 76
- The Held Breath 77
- Reading Retreat Dream 82
- Appointment 83
- Atonement 84
- In the Realm of the Poetic 85
- Spaces Like Greenhouses 86
- Working in a Library 89
- In Lieu of Flowers 90
- Untitled 92
- In Space 93
- I Answered the Question Badly 95
- Living as a Civilian 97
- A Flower or Something 98
- A Certain Faith 102
- The Lesson Bears Repeating 104
- Encouraging Artists 105
- Mindsets, the Suburbs, Late March 108
- Mountain Getaway 110
- Reading Poems by Thich Nhat Hanh and Jane Hirshfield at the End of Winter 111
- Reference Questions 113
- What is the best translation of Beowulf? 114
- Suburban Forest 116
- Writing is Easy 118
- Cupcake, Tiger, Dove 120
- National Poetry Month 121
- Book Club 122
- Chairs and Writing 123
- Summer Reading List 124
- Minor Ghosts 125
- Superstition 126
- All Summer Long, Flowers 127
- Jenny Holzer’s Truisms on Movie Theatre Marquees 130
- If I Had One Opportunity To Say Something On A Movie Marquee, What Would It Be? 131
- Acknowledgements and Dedication 134
- Author Bio 136
