Beautiful children with pet foxes / Jennifer LoveGrove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LoveGrove, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Local Subjects:

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : BookThug, 2017.

Summary:

"Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes, the new collection of poetry from Giller Prize-longlisted writer Jennifer LoveGrove, attempts to make sense of a difficult and unsettling world, where one need not look much further than their own communities to witness acts of trauma and absurdity. Here, we're haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us, and bear witness to moments of extreme crisis-in emotional breakdowns, the failures of the mental health system, the lack of support for the most vulnerable members of society, and the impact of psychosis not only on the ill but on those orbiting them. With inventive and startling imagery and logic, we're led on an odyssey through the terrain of startling dreamscapes, where a whole host of personas, both tame and wild-from humans, to foxes, moose, deer and crows, slugs, fish, beetles, mosquitos, earthworms, and more-give voice to the things we can't express in our daily lives."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Incident Report: Describe the Dwelling 7

Dinner Table 8

Self-Portrait as a Mollusk 9

The Stains I Scrubbed from the Floor 10

Dream Specimen 23 12

I Know My Own Limits and They Are Rigid 15

Wipe Clean the Sky 16

When I Was Four I Put a Tent Pole Through My Cheek 17

Self-Portrait on a Tuesday 19

Hypochondria 20

Suspension Bridges 21

Fail Another Spit Test 22

Good Lighting is Important 23

Incident Report: Identifying Characteristics 24

Dream Specimen 62 25

Brock Street 28

Self-Portrait as a Leaky Boat 29

Seventh Floor 30

Incident Report: Location 31

Cranked Up 32

Dream Specimen 95 33

Market Research 36

Orphan of Overboard 37

Incident Report: Vehicle 38

Art Therapy 39

Self-Portrait as Sawdust 40

A Window That Won't Close 42

Air and Dirt 43

Every Day 44

On Not Knowing How She Got Home or How Many Weeks She'd Been Gone 45

Autumn Takes its Rifle for a Walk 46

Dream Specimen 178 47

I Always Hear Songs Playing 50

Incident Report: Suspect Status 52

Stretch Your Arms Overhead and Your Body Will Know There is No Threat 53

Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes 54

We Are Small and So We Think Small 69

A Cauterizing Dawn 71

Incident Report: Assets and Belongings 72

Prorogation 73

The Mortgage Broker Asks for My 74

Net Income from the Previous Year Roofers 76

Dream Specimen 227 77

Incident Report: Injury Code 80

Self-Portrait as a Moth Reincarnated as an Oak Tree 81

Tasseography 82

Homalambuiophobia-Fear of Touching or Walking on Flat Surfaces 83.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

LoveGrove, Jennifer. Beautiful children with pet foxes.

ISBN:

9781771662864

1771662867

9781771662871

1771662875

9781771662888

1771662883

OCLC:

966984155

Publisher Number:

99974217704