Sleep is a country / Anne Le Dressay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Dressay, Anne.

Series:

Harbinger poetry series ; no. 3.

Harbinger poetry series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sleep--Poetry.

Sleep.

Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.

Identity (Psychology).

Interpersonal relations--Poetry.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

64 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A woman of two worlds explores personal identity, spirituality and relationships in Sleep is a Country, her first collection. Her life has been both prairie and capital, French and English. Le Dressay's often removed observations and sometimes heated interactions are shared in poems connected by strong emotion.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

All my Disguises

In my Next Life

Athena-Woman

Possession

Gil

The Grey Breath

My Upstairs Neighbour

Blind of Smell*

For Janet, Who Died Aged Twenty-Three

People Here

After Reading Sylvia Eraser’s BERLIN SOLSTICE

Memento Mori

Emploi Du Temps

My Grandmother

The Third Death

Last Words

Kildonan Cemetery, Winnipeg, June 1993

Black Dog Circling

Trust Me

I Collect Collectors

Women Know These Things

The Desert

The Way you Feel

When Anger Becomes Art

Saying no to a Vampire

As Easily as Breathing

Touching

A Patience of Passion

Rock Solid

This Pedestal

Rehearsal for Goodbye

Behind Glass

The Mind Below the Mind

Of Fire and Time

I Have Gone

Sleep is a Country

Like a Blue Stone

In the Sleep of my Flesh

Ghost Cats

Nuit Blanche

Earth-Bound

Avoid the Angels

Blood from Stone

A Perfect Hatred

Phantom Pain

Faraway People

Waiting

Alongside

Blue Stone II

Speaking in Tongues

This Landscape

Then

Spaces of Stillness

The Cutting Edge

Crossing Over

ISBN:

1-283-53097-X

9786613843425

0-7735-8296-7

OCLC:

767670547