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Skinny-dipping with the muse / Ellen S. Jaffe.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.L659 S55 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jaffe, Ellen S., 1945- author.
- Series:
- Essential poets ; 211.
- Essential poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Guernica, 2014.
- Summary:
- Grouped into four sections, the poems in this collection relate to the writer's experience of divine "into the destructive element" (in Joseph Conrad's words), naked, vulnerable, stripping off clothes, masks, and preconceptions in a process of connecting with the "creative spirit" in a way that is playful, loving, emotionally rich and wet, care-full, and spontaneous. These poems are conversations with the living, the dead, and the world itself. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I Forms of Kaddish
- Inanna on the Subway 15
- The Moons of Saturn 16
- Erie Lighthouse #3 18
- Planting Bulbs for Heathers Grandmother 19
- Mary: Warm in a Cold Season 20
- What Remains 22
- Sleeping 24
- Snow Angel 25
- Moving 27
- My Mother's Kitchen 29
- Flocking 31
- All That Jazz 33
- Father's Day 2005: At the Stadium Formerly Known as Sky Dome 34
- My Father Before the War 35
- If My Father Had Written Poems 37
- Ghost Child 39
- Childhood Then 40
- Snow 41
- II Love Stories
- About Time 45
- Varadero 48
- Fay Wray Writes to King Kong 50
- In the Kitchen 52
- Swan Lake 53
- Springing, Longing 55
- The Deer at Cootes Paradise 56
- Fish Dreams 58
- In Newfoundland 59
- What We Think We Know 60
- Her Story 62
- Bosque del Apache 64
- In Mexico 65
- Angel Fire 67
- Lost Heart Highway 68
- Smoke 70
- Continental Drift 73
- Want and Desire 75
- Mammograms 76
- Fears: a love poem 78
- No Words 79
- III Bearing Witness
- In the Present Climate (April 18, 2010) 83
- Night and Fog 85
- Remembering September Tenth 86
- This is the Dream 87
- In Cuba: Museum of the Revolution 89
- IV "What is There to Say ...?"
- "What Is There to Say When..." 93
- M.C. Escher Series 95
- Miriam's Well 98
- Amazing Grace 100
- Ruby Slippers 102
- Like Light in the Desert 104
- The Bar at the End of the Universe 106
- There is a Day 107.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-112).
- ISBN:
- 9781550718430
- 1550718436
- OCLC:
- 859187853
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