Notes on arrival and departure / Rachel Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Rachel, 1970-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2005.

Summary:

Rachel Rose follows her award-winning first book with a dazzling, urgent collection of new poems that look unflinchingly at our collective, and particular, errors and longings. In images that range from the disturbing to the spectacular, these poems take us from the California gold rush and the strange world of beauty pageants for young children, to the wonders of the Cirque du Soleil and the violence that inhabits our lives. Anchoring the collection is a rich, unsentimental suite of lyrics on the "uncomprehending pilgrimage" of pregnancy and new motherhood. In her exploration of love and creation, Rose transports the reader to moments of "startled prayer" and unexpected, hardwon grace. Notes on Arrival and Departure articulates a humane personal politics, lushly imagined and compellingly voiced, and confirms Rachel Rose's reputation as one of Canada's most exciting and accomplished new poetic voices.

Contents:

American Pageant 1

Woman Being Transfused by a Goat 2

Table of Ears 3

Gift of Tongues 4

Eel 5

Dark Flags 7

October Stroller 9

The Proof 11

Triple Crown 13

Two Roads Diverged 15

Sickbed 17

Passing Through Evolution 19

Wandering Womb 21

Last Passover in Montreal 24

The Night I Weaned You 28

Notes on Arrival and Departure 30

Sheets 34

September Letters 36

Freeway Entrance, Port Moody 44

Stars 45

Raccoons in Garbage 47

Envoy to a Poem Never Sent 49

The Execution of Form: A History Lesson 50

A Child's Garden of Verses 60

Algerian Woman Mourning (1997 Photo of the Year) 63

To Those I Entrusted With Memorizing My Poems 65

Requiem: Quatsino Burning 67

The New GRE 68

Morning Paper 70

Love's First Decade 72

Sequin 74

Cirque du Soleil 75

Defence of God 78

The Story 81.

ISBN:

077107591X

OCLC:

57003176