Arguments for lawn chairs / Aaron Kreuter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreuter, Aaron, author.

Series:

First poets series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 16.

First poets series ; 16

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 67 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Guernica Editions, 2016.

Summary:

The poems in Arguments for Lawn Chairs take multiple positions. The poems in Arguments for Lawn Chairs don't trust your grandmother's cooking. They have visited Pangea, they have visited Toronto and Montreal, the B.C. Gulf Islands, Tiberias, the tailing ponds near Sudbury, and they are still not satisfied, are still unconvinced, still need more proof. They are suckers for dovetailed boxes, winter fire pits, houses that sit not quite true, a rent garbage bag spilling its guts on Queen Street. The poems in Arguments for Lawn Chairs have some choice words for Orpheus, for Eurydice, for Beowulf, fro Dumbledore and Hermione. The poems in Arguments for Lawn Chairs are devoid of hope, but are joyful nonetheless.

Contents:

Playgrounds

Plastic 1

Continental Drift 2

Math Poem 3

An Optimist Thinks About Plastic Water Bottles 4

Now That the Water Is All But Gone 6

Summer Garbage Strike 7

With the Grain 8

Against the Grain 9

Paddling the Nickel Tailings near Sudbury 10

Golf Course 12

Books 13

One-On-One 14

Handwritten Addendum to the Torah Left on the Moon 15

Everyone 17

Headlamps

Letter to Irena Sendlerowa 21

No, Not the Last 22

After the Shiva 23

Yehudia Park 24

Monday Evening 25

Tiberias 26

Mountains 27

Plums 28

Mushrooms 29

Bindings 30

The Shape of Night from the Small of the Morning 31

Geography 32

An Afternoon in the Car, Taking Pictures 33

Tracks 34

Richie 35

The End of That Story 36

Winter Cottage 37

Mouths

Slaughter 41

Operation Sea Lion 43

Child Nightmares 44

Beowulf 2.0 45

Fan Fiction 47

Escapology 49

To YouTube Double Rainbow Guy 50

The Writerly Life 51

Orpheus and Eurydice 52

Love Poem 53

Posterity 55

Building a House 56

Date Bed's Visions Continue 57

B.C. Orchard 58

Song of the Condom Thrower 59

Leaving Academia 60

Spring in Toronto 61.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781771831352

1771831359

OCLC:

943564972