Desecrations : poems / Matt Rader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rader, Matt, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2016]

Summary:

For Pattern is Information, and verse the mind's conversation with Time, Matt Rader's Desecrations animates a theatre of silence we recognize as mystery. Building on an already- astonishing body of work, in lines so fluid and uncannily resonant they feel cousined to the dream world, Rader insists that intimate moments bear the cargo of both past and future, antiquity and grim projection, ancestry and unborn selves, resulting in poems of kaleidoscopic beauty and strangeness. These singular, musical evocations eschew argument in favour of a welcoming, arms-wide abandon, and an ethics of porousness and connection. By some alchemy of voice, detail, collision, and disobedience to chronology, Desecrations reveals the imagination as a worthy location of real experience. These poems are a new way to orbit around a locus of damage, a new fabric of signs and singing that we cant help but realize we'd been yearning for all along. Book jacket.

Contents:

Winter Horses 1

Leenane, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland 2

Homer 3

Ghocolatey versus Anne Devlin 4

Mavis Gallant 6

Hightown, Coralstown, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland 7

My Life Aboard the Last Sailing Ship Carrying Cumberland Coal 8

Perverts 10

Talking Trojan War Blues 11

Cormac's, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland 12

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Dead But Were Afraid to Ask the Ice-Fishers at Gardom Lake 13

SN1987AZT 14

Lunar New Year's Day, Year of the Snake 16

When For a Time I Loved Two Women 17

Everything About You Reminds Me of You But It's Not My Name You Say in Your Sleep 20

Indigenous Cities 21

A Dyer's Garden 28

Cranberries 29

Divis and the Black Mountain, Belfast, Northern Ireland 30

The Irish Cliffs of Moher by Wallace Stevens 31

Captain Ahab and the Great Shroud of the Sea 32

The Dead Know All About Us 33

The Iliad, or the Poem of Force by Simone Weil 34

From Treaty 6, Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt, and Battle River, 1876 35

La Baume Bonne 36

Knowth, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath, Ireland 37

Music Lesson 38

Okanagan Gneiss 39

I Don't Want to Die Like Frank O'Hara 40

Bring Me the Head of Emiliano Zapata Salazar 41

1977 42

The Assassination of Achilles the Cruel 43

Dove Creek Hall (Formerly Swedes' Hall) 44

Alice Munro 45

Falcon Hill, Lover's Walk, Cork City, Ireland 46

From The Lives of North American Horses 47.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Rader, Matt, 1978-, author. Desecrations.

ISBN:

9780771072482

0771072481

OCLC:

928679970

Publisher Number:

99967981421