Fever / Leanne Averbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Averbach, Leanne.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 p ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Mansfield Press, 2005.

Summary:

Erotic and absurdist, Leanne Averbach's fever docu-rides a life examined through multifarious experiences. Through her iconoclastic lens, life as a former left-wing activist and trade union organizer takes shape with indelible moments spent in factories or incarcerated in jail cells. Averbach's work contains vivid tales of love, family encounters, and the mad poetry of harsh international realities. With its unique blend of the personal and the political, fever burns with the engagement of the most committed poetry.

Contents:

Born this way 3

Memories Don't 4

My Marvelous Life as a Writer 5

Grandfather's Hand 6

Annual Dine with Family 7

Is Just a Kiss 8

The Funeral 9

By Metrotown Station I Sat Down & Wept 10

Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary 11

Willow 13

The Man Who Mistook His Daughter for a Sheet 14

Eulogy 15

The Birds of Sarajevo 19

In Lieu of Trees 21

The View 22

Married to a Marxist-Leninist 23

Ivy 24

Rio de Janeiro 26

Size 27

In the Naval Museum, Venice 28

Moment 29

Funeral Fictions 30

Popping Herring Roe 32

Abattoir 34

By the Sea 36

The Dare 37

She's a Peach 38

Deathwatcher 39

Bone and Brush 40

Phone Call Home 42

I Dreamt of a Wood Fence 47

Birthday Wishes in the Mirror 48

Two Older Dames Compare Tattoos 49

Almost Was 50

Working with My Favorite Mister 51

Ode to the Hot Pepper 52

Swoon 53

Internet Dating 54

Carwash 55

The Patient Considers Her Parts 57

Secrets 58

Aisle of Hope 59

Rodeo and Juliet 61

Song at Hidden Lake 62

Opening 64

Fever 65

Spring 66

Blood Test 67

Blue Heron Amore 68

No Light at Dawn 69

Optischism 70

The Truth about Bartleby 71

Bird 73

Bird 2 74

The Gift 75

The Woof of Reason 76

Exit 77

Beneath 78

Stoplight 79.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1894469232 :

OCLC:

58831085