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Hyaena season / Richard Osler.

Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.O784 A6 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Osler, Richard, author.
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Canadian poetry--21st century.
Canadian poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
115 pages ; 23 cm
Other Title:
Hyena season
Place of Publication:
Toronto : Quattro Books, [2016]
Summary:
"The poems of Hyaena Season examine the intimacies of a wide range of human experience from the killing grounds of Rwanda and DR Congo to more familiar Canadian settings. But no matter the topics - whether memories of parents, children, lovers or the even more challenging stories of physical and emotional conflict at home or away - the focus is intensely personal, as the poems grapple with the tensions between life's darkest undercurrents and its most tender epiphanies."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Baptism 9
I My Father's Knives
Bog Angel 15
Not a Bible Story 16
War Wounds 17
Father and Son 20
Plane Truths 21
Fisher King 22
Country of the Hunter's Moon 24
Down to Dark and Deeper 26
Her father's wartime portrait 27
His Father's Grave 28
A Debt Repaid 29
II What He Doesn't Know
What the Eye Cannot See 33
Rights and Wrongs 38
That Colour 39
Long Way Home 40
Sore Afraid 43
Lost Inside Henry VIII's Chapel 45
Weather Report 46
On the Twentieth Wedding Anniversary - A Meditation Beside the Sahsh Sea 48
What I Want 49
Her Mother's Death 50
A Month Before She Left 51
A Geologist Recites Stratigraphies: The Way of a Marriage 52
Obsidian 53
Two Poets Divorce 54
Hyaena Season 55
The Danger Tree 56
A Poem's Third Eye - He Longs for a Black Woman in His Poem and Meets Her Three Months Later 57
III Lucky Season
Through a Bazaar Window in Istanbul 61
All Africa In Us 62
Arrested 64
Travelogue 65
Optical Illusions 67
Angel of Refugees 68
Kigali Genocide Memorial - Rwanda 69
Strange Batons 70
Aspects of Heaven 71
What's a Gun? 72
Now I Am Eight 73
Thinking of Pornography - Response to an E-mail from Patricia, Nurse-in-Training, former Sex Slave in the Lord's Resistance Amy 74
Misfortunates 75
Lucky Season 76
Twibuke 77
The Hill of Kayumba - Innocent's Lament 79
IV Red Petals
Spider Old-Woman at Spider Rock 83
What the Ears Hear 84
Thy Kingdom Come 85
Thanksgiving Prayer at Sixty-Two 86
Stolen Letters 87
Walking the Labyrinth - Early Days of Her Recovery 88
Coming Back to Her House 90
A Song for His Father 91
The Trouble a Poet Is 92
A Metaphor 93
Reading and Writing in Bed at Night 94
Ex-Lover Blues 95
Coming at It Slant 96
Last Day 97
Winter Web 98
Daffodils 99
His Mother's Flowers I 100
Cherish This World 102
His Mother's Flowers II 103
Adaptation 104.
Notes:
Poems.
ISBN:
9781988254241
1988254248
OCLC:
945951046
Publisher Number:
99974840180

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