Happyland : poems / by Kevin Connolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connolly, Kevin.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : ECW Press, [2002]

Summary:

Kevin Connolly's long-awaited second collection represents a completely contemporary approach to two age-old poetic preoccupations -- love and death. In tumbling lines and vivid, visual language, Happyland gives the once-over to the shadows of the old century before addressing the darkening momentum of the new. In poems that fear neither humour nor high seriousness, Connolly shakes the brain with a sometimes whimsical, sometimes nasty, flood of cultural pornography; doomed submarines, high-school hit squads, cow-dung ozone holes, astronauts clothed in flames. The title piece, a documentary poem about a horrific 1990 fire at an illegal New York night club, is a testament to the growth and range of this always surprising talent.

Contents:

Uncle

More Totality 5

Order Picker 6

Hopeless 7

Pictures of Your Pictures 9

"Symbols Are Lies" 10

Glass Ear 12

Lake, Ocean 13

School Ties 15

Episode 16

Thirteen Verifiable Facts 17

Thanks for the Hat 18

Cummerbund 20

Trench Coat Mafia 21

An Ecology 22

Live a Little 23

Midnight On The Moon

Light and Death 27

East End Incident 28

Grassling 30

Simplex 31

Death is a Daisy 33

The Conversation 35

The Trumped Concerto 38

Safety Verse 39

Amputee 40

Porcelain Jesus 41

Dazzling Slumber 42

Happyland

IX Sticks 59

VIII Trial 61

VII Unfortunate 63

VI P.S. 67 65

V "Something Bad Got Into Me" 67

IV Anniversary 69

III "No One Left to Save" 71

II Miracle 73

I "Monster" 75.

Notes:

"Misfit".

ISBN:

1550225146 :

OCLC:

53232027