My father's cup / Tom Wayman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wayman, Tom, 1945-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

126 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., [2002]

Summary:

For almost thirty years, poet Tom Wayman has celebrated the language of everyday life and work. In My Father's Cup he examines the conflicting emotions that arise when a parent dies, when faith withers, when awareness of one's own mortality grows. Wayman's fans will be pleased to see that the "guru of the work poetry movement" can still dissect our work-obsessed culture with insight and humour.

Contents:

A Smaller Table

Hawk 11

Excursion 13

Cup 16

Kosovo 17

Gesture 20

A Smaller Table 22

The Nap 24

Apparition 27

Absence 29

Bequest 31

The Pond

The Quiet of the Seven Sisters 37

Epithalamium for a Former Lover 38

Photon 41

The Pond 43

The Order in Which We Do Things

Treason of the Clerks 47

Boss 49

The Reef 51

May Day 2001: Negotiating a New Collective Agreement 53

Negotiations 57

It's Friday 60

The Order in Which We Do Things 63

What You'll Find When You Get Ahead 64

The Road Father

Nineteen Ninety-nine 69

On Eby's Path 71

The Road Father 73

What the Sixties Mean to Me 75

In Memory of A.W. Purdy 79

God Hates Hair 83

Big Weather 85

Hidden Mountain

On Perry Ridge 89

The Blossoming 90

Fear Eclipsed by Distance 92

For Bill Sutherland (1919-1997) 94

Soaring Crow 96

The Anti-Prometheus 97

Moving to Heaven 99

Ice Lake 101

Circle 103

Rig 104

Cans of Nails

What a Word Lacks 109

A Meeting With Neruda in Toronto 111

At Dusk, the Deer Move to Water 115

Two Poets I Admire Contact Me on the Same Day 117

Overtaking the Dead 119

The Death of Al Grierson (1948-2000) 121.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1550172824 :

OCLC:

49742094