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The words wanting out : poems selected & new / Barry Dempster.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.D435 W67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dempster, Barry, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Roberts Creek, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2003.
- Summary:
- "The Words Wanting Out" is the first selection from one of Canada' s most respected poets. In 1982 Barry Dempster landed on the short list for the Governor General' s Award for Poetry for his very first book, and has since published seven more collections to high praise. Over this time, Dempster has chosen to keep a relatively low profile, relocating from Toronto to the small town of Holland Landing, Ontario, and only publishing his work at small literary presses. Many of his collections are either out of print or not widely distributed, making all of his titles highly sought after by poetry readers across Canada who have discovered his poignant writing by reputation, word-of-mouth, literary journals or by his contributions to our cultural landscape as an editor, instructor and critic. "The Words Wanting Out" collects the best poems of Dempster' s varied and dynamic output, including those from his 2003 collection "Living Well" (available in limited edition only from Poppy Press).
- Contents:
- Books Are 11
- Links 12
- Parasites 14
- Sunday School and the Promised Land 15
- Poems Home, an Only Childhood 16
- Housework 20
- The Darkest Hour 21
- Arithmetic 22
- Somewhere ... 24
- Hippies 26
- Uncle Claude 27
- To Grant (A Familiar Verb) 28
- Unconditional Love 30
- Visiting Nana 32
- Holy Face 34
- Endless Prayers 36
- Useless Boys 37
- Knee-High 38
- Incomplete Without Her 40
- Eastwood 1906 43
- Disappearing Grandmothers 44
- Accordion Notes 45
- Love Place 46
- Picture Desire 48
- Singing 50
- Feeling the Heat ... 52
- The God Poems 54
- Drowning 59
- The Search 60
- Holding Father 62
- Bleeding Hearts 67
- Swallowed Song 68
- The Broken Man 70
- The Dead Are Watching Us 72
- The Bluffs 77
- Horses That Could Fly 80
- Seasons 82
- Swinging Into Space 84
- Believing in Billy 86
- Giving Birth 88
- Suffer the Little Children ... 89
- Going to Hell 90
- Mary Speaks to Jesus 92
- Green as the Vein in a Young Man's Desire ... 94
- The Sunoco Bear 96
- Real Life 98
- A Bird in the House 101
- How I Surrender to the Devil 102
- Capricorn 104
- Cornwall 1916 109
- Free Ride 110
- Possibilities ... 112
- The Morning Devours 114
- To Wake the Dead 116
- Extreme 118
- Couples 119
- Living Well 120
- Wanting Him 122
- The Unavoidable Man 124
- Feeling the Power 125
- Lucky Pigs 126
- Let There Be Light 128
- The Waiting Room 130
- The Working Dead 132
- Blue Collar 133
- Croydon 1909 134
- Soundings 135
- A Million Words ... 136
- Comets 141
- Afterlife ... 142
- Wild, Wild 143
- A Recurring Life 144
- My Nights Are Taken Up With Stars 147
- In an Instant 148
- Casa Loma 150
- Last Lights ... 152
- Timothy Findley's Boots, Stone Orchard Sale, October 1998 154
- A Thousand Cushions 156
- Last Evening in Siberia 158
- Leaps 160
- Del Monte Ranch, Questa, New Mexico 1924 161
- An Occasional Thanks 162
- Mapmaking 164.
- ISBN:
- 0889711925 :
- OCLC:
- 53253285
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