Dear ghost / Catherine Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Catherine, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--20th century.

Canadian poetry.

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

103 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, Ontario : Buckrider Books, [2017]

Summary:

"Catherine Owen's latest collection is an extended love letter to her poetic influences and to the real-world objects, people, places and situations that fascinate her. Inspired by the work of John Ashbery, among others, in Dear Ghost, Owen returns to the kooky imagery and humorous style she last visited with her award-winning collection Frenzy. These poems entertain immensities of sound while plumbing the depths of the psyche's surrealities, content to enter a dreamlike realm where meaning is found in the nonsensical, the utterly human and the everyday. While Owen gathers her subjects from the mundane--work, sex, acquaintances and art--she imbues them with the extraordinary quirks and uncertainties that only language can create, and the effects are dizzying."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Poems That Were Overheard in Various Locales

Decoupage 17

The Dildo Craftsman 18

Three Overheard Sonnets 19

Residual Lingerie 22

Thirled 23

Bible Study Group at the Beach 25

A Little Note on Passing By 26

Ocean, A Personal Ad 27

Just the Way Things Are (He Said) 28

Poems That Work in the TV World

Movie Industry Trash 31

Shooting Afghanistan in Minaty Bay 32

The Stash 33

These are the Conditions 34

Two a.m., After Taking Hours to Shoot the Final Seen North Van Memorial Grounds 35

Just Another Day in Film 36

The Deceased BGS 37

Cast Driver for Number One 38

When I Love Film, the Most 39

Poems That Attend to Familiar Characters from the Past

Washing 43

The Window Washer 45

Jigger 47

Steve Kulash, Taxidermist 51

Just Another Character in the Song of Songs 52

The Journal of John Berryman from 1948 to 1971: A reverse glosa of first lines 53

What I Remember about Attending Elementary School 55

What I Remember about Being Born 56

What I Remember about What We Weren't Allowed in Childhood 57

Nine: An Extended, Shortened Corona 58

Swallows' Nests of Isla de Janitzio, Michoacán 67

Just Another Loss of Faith 68

The Combination 69

My Parents are Playing Scrabble on the Deck 70

Against Billy Collins' Refusal to Read Poems called "My Grandfather's Binoculars" 71

Problems with the Sentimental Perspective Over a Construction Site and a Nazareth Concert, circa 2013 72

Two Stanzas on My Father Begun by Sharon Olds 73

This is a Picture of My Father Right after I was Born 74

Poems That Veer into the Freakish and May Echo John Ashbery

The Confidante of Bruised Fruit and Other Rides on the Subway 77

2:22 am. 78

Later on in January, Following the Century's Grand Upheaval 79

Hooks and Pulleys Galore 80

A Few Delightful Sound Bites from a Downtown Tragedy in Three Parts 81

Elegy with the Ghost of Larry Levis in It 82

The Social Net as Sturm Und Drang 85

Transformations in the Aviary of the Banal 86

Excerpts from the Diary of Johann Hauser's Woman (1985) 87

Just Another Typical Day 89

The Archaic Body 90

A Brief History of Getting Naked 92

Coney Island, October 2008 94

Freaks 95

John Ashbery, I Want You to Keep Whispering Your Sweet Nothings in My Ear Forever or a Valentine's Day Poem to Poetry 97

If Eliot Were to Write Your Personal Apocalypse 98.

Notes:

Poems.

"A Buckrider book."

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781928088318

1928088317

OCLC:

961155410

Publisher Number:

99975451724