First crack / Craig Poile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poile, Craig.

Series:

Harbinger poetry series ; no. 5.

Harbinger poetry series ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Poetry.

Religion.

Mythology--Poetry.

Mythology.

Interpersonal relations--Poetry.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

50 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection comes from an alternate world of poetry running close beside our own, one which is always chugging away at shaping meaning and adding substance to our feelings. These poems are usually a study in near-solitude: domestic scenes, Michelangelo's Last Judgement, the myths of Egypt, skaters on the Rideau Canal. The poems don't so much tackle as trip over something like the truth, capturing the moment that brings together art and the observer, history and modern life, fact and fiction. The result is occasional rhyme and traditional forms, snatches of conversation, tiny dramas, painted moments, and an unflagging faith in language and its ability to give us everything we need to learn and know.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Invitation

New Year’s Letter (1993)

Foyer

Tethered

Requiem

Hadrian’s Vow

Arousal (Portrait of Anthony and Cleopatra)

Household Gods

Waiting

The Distance Between

New Year’s Letter (1994)

Lives of My Cell

Lather

Jellyfish

Pacemaker (Sestina)

Anima

Eighth Month

Heaven and Hell

Fragment

Thickening

Golem

Media

New Year’s Letter (1995)

Untitled

Moondog

Autoerotic

To The Wall

Mise En Abyme

Summer Evening, 1995

On The Chateau Terrace

The Distance From

New Year’s Letter (1996)

Old Flames

Moving In

Accommodations

Utensils

Invasion

Bodyworks

Empty

Some Late Afternoons

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-52954-8

9786613841995

0-7735-8389-0

OCLC:

923236589