Every inadequate name : poems / Nick Thran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thran, Nick, 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Insomniac Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this, his highly anticipated debut collection of poems, Nick Thran fuses a whimsical pop sensibility with an urgent poetic gravitas that refuses to sell the human heart short. The resultant poems are emblematic of the clash between our private enthusiasms and the cool diffidence of the world around us.

Contents:

Contents; I: THE BLANK-LEAVED BOOK; That Lobster Has Been There Forever; How Pop Sounds; The Coin O'Rama Laundromat, a Dedication; Morning Routine, with Shadow; Little Cowboys; Not Pee Wee; The Poem You've Been Waiting For; La Linea; The Bear Claw Tub; Eagle Nest; Junkie Aesthetic; II: THE BACKWARDS BASIC; Coastline Variation #53; Seriously, It Was the Biggest Cricket; Gurdeep's Brain; Found: Salsa Instructions with Frank Ramos; Club Amnesia; Coastline Variation #32; Bloor Street

Thoughts While Driving a Stretch of Mountain Road, Listening to a Tape of Pablo Neruda Reading "Las Alturas de Machu Picchu"Azucar; Monday in the World of Beauty; Coastline Variation #19; Ill: EDGEWATER; Coastline Variation #76; Edgewater; Isolation Camp, a Letter; Coastline Variation #86; Coastline Variation #3; The Impossible Omelette; Coastline Variation #41; How Pop Sounds pt 2 (The White Album); Bird Time; Notes; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-91093-3

9786610910939

1-4593-0946-4

1-897414-85-4

OCLC:

290544120