The exiles' gallery / Elise Partridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Partridge, Elise, 1958-2015, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 104 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : House of Anansi Press, 2015.

Contents:

I

The Exile's Home Gallery 3

Biography 5

Dominion 7

My Last Duchess (The Manservant) 9

Fifth and Seventieth 11

Astrolabe 13

X, a CV 14

Co-Education 15

Legacies 17

Emigrés 19

For a Woman Born in the 1930s 20

Domestic Interior: Child Watching Mother 21

Waltzing 23

Tree 25

Parish Dance 26

Meth 27

From a Niece 29

Then 31

Years On 33

Strawberry Cuttings 35

Return 37

Citydwellers 39

II

Before the Fall 43

The Alphabet 44

Brief Lives 45

Gettysburg, Field and Town 46

Collateral Damage 47

Transfer of Power 48

Placard at the Los Angeles Excavation Site, 5002 A.D. 49

Thoreauvian 50

The Imaginary Encyclopedia 51

Litany 53

Alternate Histories 55

III

If Clouds Had Strings 59

Fates 61

Hummingbird Koan 62

A Late Writer's Desk 63

Range 64

Big Pink 65

Vengerov's Violin 67

The Wildlife Illustrator 69

The Latin Teacher 71

IV

Statue 75

Roadside Carnival 77

Anticlea and Daughter 78

Miranda at Fifty 79

The Finder 81

Anticancer Charm 83

Terminal 85

Exits 87

Last Days 89

Italian Fifteenth-Century Double Wedding Portrait 91

Gifts 93

Invitation 94

The If Borderlands 95.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781770899797

1770899790

9781770899803

1770899804

OCLC:

898475940