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Calm jazz sea / Mike Barnes.
LIBRA PR9199.3.B3725 C34 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Mike, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Barnes, Mike, 1955- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, Ont. : Brick Books, [1996]
- Summary:
- The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral - meals, drinks, weather, work, moments of solitude or connection - he finds ways to engage the secret matter of humanity: what horrifies, astonishes, or comforts us. Like the sea of the title, restless and receptive, the language of the poems moves through many levels of voice: from an easy vernacular to the strain of conversation, or from the precise record of sensual matter to the insubstantial gestures that constitute thought. The generosity and diversity of these works prove how refreshing is a writer who is as keen to watch as show, as pleased with what is found as with what is created, and who has the gift of listening as well as the power of speaking.
- Contents:
- Man in Horseshoe Bay 13
- The Act 14
- Catch 15
- Tourist Town 16
- The Deaf in Love 17
- Michael, in a Field of Butterflies 18
- Dave's Creed 20
- Confusion Is Always Greatest Before It Ends 22
- Crash Helmet 23
- A New Friend 24
- A Short Psycho-Sexual History 25
- Working in the O.R. 26
- The Floral Jungle 27
- Natalie 28
- Calm Jazz Sea 31
- Decade 32
- The Seine 34
- Fishcleaning 35
- To the Spider on My Coffeemaker 36
- The Miraculous Hatch 37
- Retort 38
- Black and White Pictures After a Rainstorm 40
- Bullheads 41
- Thirst 43
- The Glass Angler 44
- Coffee Soup 47
- Summer Composition 48
- Flame 49
- Film 50
- Dusk Intersect 53
- The Lush 54
- November Poem 56
- The Truth 57
- R 59
- I Like You 60
- Charity 61
- Goldfish 62
- Fall Day 63
- Beaver Skull Found on a Beach 67
- Accident 68
- Stirring a Can of Soup on the Stove 69
- The Paintings of Edward Hopper 70
- Glass Fish 71
- Letter to Alma 72
- Cinnamon Knots 74
- The Man Who Fell Overboard 76
- You and the Crowd 78
- Ancient Animals 80
- Mother and Child 82
- The Wave 83
- Hair in a Library Book 84
- Beaver Skull 85.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.
- ISBN:
- 0919626858 :
- OCLC:
- 37310974
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