Auguries / Clea Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Clea, 1974- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

103 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, Ontario : Brick Books, [2017]

Summary:

Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated with their northern landscape. Roberts is well versed in the distances and dynamics between tedium and ecstasy, light and dark, isolation and solitude, freeze and thaw, flow and stillness. Her poems are spare and clean, each like a single larch in an immense white plain; their exactness startling and arresting. As the Gerald Lampert Award jury citation for her celebrated first book noted, "Her images ... are not only crisp and precise, but manage to speak about the physical conditions of this place and its emotional landscape in one and the same lyrical breath ..." Written during a period in which Roberts both became a parent and lost a parent, the poems in Auguries lend themselves to prayer, surrender, celebration, reconciliation, meditation, and auspice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Andante Grazioso 3

If Suddenly My Dreams Are Premonitions 4

The Forest 5

February 11

Cold Snap 15

Why She Stayed 19

Riverine 20

Matins 22

Whiteout, Skagway Summit 26

Wincer Sunday 27

The Way a Winter Is Measured 28

Mountain Walking 31

Letter to My Daughter 39

A Small Legacy 51

Seer 52

How We Wake Somewhere Different 53

From the Restaurant at the Marina 54

Epoch 55

Spring Snowfall, Melting 56

A Reliable Vehicle 57

Spring Planting 61

Johnson Lake, Late August 69

Heat Wave 70

The First Time They Saw the Whole Earth 74

Brother 76

We Loved to Eat at Burger King 77

Getting Wood 78

Fever Luminaria 80

Musica Universalis 81

Storytelling 85

Condolences 86

Swimming 87

Pneumonia 88

Morning Practice 91

Perseids 98.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Roberts, Clea, 1974- Auguries.

ISBN:

9781771314510

1771314516

9781771314534

1771314532

OCLC:

969984164

Publisher Number:

99973893331