The Hard Return is a broken list of metaphors for the human heart. Or it's a troubling elegy for a disposable world. Or it's something much less serious than that.
Alternating between loving descriptions of twenty-first-century excess and awkward social situations, Marcus McCann's poems are sincere and ironic, sad and half-joking, often in the same instant.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781554830633 9781554830763
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.M413
- LCCN Item number
- H37 2012eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (78 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234025 (OCoLC)872601202 (CaOOCEL)465435
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- front cover 1
- hard return pages.pdf 2
- Contents 6
- Prayer 10
- At First I Felt Small, and Then 11
- Danger Overhead 12
- Pipe 13
- Earthenware Mug 14
- Puffy Coat with a Hole Burnt into It,Bringham Street 16
- Tee 17
- Dunk Tank 18
- Scene in Which a Neighbour Tries to Jump from Your Window onto His Own Roof 19
- Beerdancehallmusic 21
- Hassle Free Clinic, Toronto 22
- Song for the Song of Britney Spears 23
- Poem for a Precious Chapbook 24
- Poem for a Precious Chapbook 25
- Twenty-Two Toronto Poets Wake up on theBathroom Floor and Discuss Their Hangover 26
- A Flip-Flop 28
- Co-worker’s House Party 29
- Rower 31
- Dawn Lightning, Reflected in a Glass Condo 32
- Compiling, Collated 34
- Pale Anonymous Hetero, Havoc Comes 35
- Twenty-Two BC Poets Use Orgasm As a Metaphor for Belonging 36
- Medical Devices 38
- Chicken Wings 39
- Oversized Gold Lamé Handbag 40
- Straight Pins 41
- Garbage Chute 42
- Scaffolds, Dismantled 43
- Dissolve 44
- Webcam Screencap of Jonathan As Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait, 1969 46
- Glass Jaw 47
- Distortingly Proximal Pose 49
- If I Could See Ryan’s Orgasm from the Inside, Then Technicolour 51
- Too Much Cake 52
- Ten Facts about the Saxophone 53
- News of the World 55
- Point System 56
- Twenty-Two Ottawa Poets Fail to Agree about the Morning 57
- Password Security Monologue 58
- Password Security Drinking Game 59
- Snake 61
- Pissing on the Side of The Swarm, London, Ontario 62
- Under a Frypan-Pepsi-Burnt-out-House Sky 63
- An Ailment in the Major Constellations 65
- Prayer II 67
- Town in a Long Day of Leaving 69
- Documents 71
- Acknowledgements 74
- Notes 75
- back cover 80
