Hurt thyself / Andrew Steinmetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinmetz, Andrew.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 73 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between The Sexes What is the chance she smiles on this rivalry declared in the unspoken as chivalry, even one glance shot in the glass, while ahead he waits holding the door half-open, half-closed. Andrew Steinmetz's second collection of poetry turns a clinical eye on his favourite subjects - love, marriage, power, fantasy, and art. At the crossroads of the credos "know thyself" and "heal thyself," Steinmetz adopts a "hurt thyself" attitude that is sardonic and compassionate. Using a tersely sensitive language that relies on the poet's own speaking voice, Hurt Thyself betrays a slightly ominous and skewed philosophical rigor. The implications of the poet's examined life are poems that feel emotionally exposed yet discriminating and sceptical.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

One

Hurt Thyself

Lunch Date

Blasphemy

An Honest Couple

Tahiti

Naive Art

I Find It Objectionable

Marital Sex

Worrying about the Neighbours

Models of Society

Set in Our Ways

Love Is Blind

Late

Describe Your Pain

Two

Only the Barber

Literary Terms

Blank Verse

Monograph

Confessions of a Borrower

The Parthenon Galleries

Bibliophile

Three

Swedish Army Bridge

Upper Body

Solitaire

Janssons Frestelse

Diaspora in Colours

East German Train, 1989

Postcards: The Ring of Brodgar, 2400 bc

The Examined Life

Oligodendroglioma

Smooth Muscle

Between the Sexes

Small Talk

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

0-7735-7443-3

OCLC:

923232009