Ganymede's dog / John Emil Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, John Emil, 1969- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

The Hugh Maclennan poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ganymede (Greek mythology)--Poetry.

Ganymede (Greek mythology).

Dogs--Poetry.

Dogs.

American poetry.

Gay culture.

Canada.

Gay culture--Poetry.

American poetry--Canada--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

113 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails. The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to life, whether Ganymede's abduction by Zeus in the form of an eagle, his abduction by a century's worth of Budweiser labels, Sophocles's boozy boy-chasing, or the dancing plague of 1518. John Emil Vincent teases his materials into surreal, joyous, dirty, sometimes gruesome animation. His revelations arrive in the guise of other characters, and throughout, there are dogs. Dog-themed philosophy, dog-headed saints, dog-worshipping island rituals, and just plain dogs invite the reader to puppy-pile with Petronius, Catherine the Great, and Saint Christopher in a sapiosexual orgy with autocorrect handling the towels. Deeply infused with gay culture and mythology, Ganymede's Dog is a collection of smart, knowing, allusive, often ironic poems that ponder the boundaries of legend and the privileges of youth and beauty."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ganymede's dog

In blazing black and white

That everything's unfair has a certain justice to it

That nothing's fair has a certain justice to it

Only as good as the team managing your brand

Realist paradise

The dancing plague of 1518

Quirk earnings

Three hunky punks and one true gargoyle

The disposition of angels

Wings

Goya's dog

Introduction of Budweiser to the gods

Metronome dependent

The beauty of the way, the goodness of the wayfarers

Charming spot, inspiring prospects

Collapse of the wave function

Russian doll prison

The obscure charms of the lately extinct cunning folk of New Brunswick

Lest ye be

Maybe if I shout at you you'll trust in what I'm saying

The darkest before dawn daycare

Listening injury

Breeding habits of the spectacled tyrant

The new vague

Nimroddery

The hour between wolf and dog

First casualty of the Canadian ketchup wars

How to survive the next great Canadian name famine

The minced oath

The playfulness of skeletons, the sadness of bones

Santa Anna's lost leg

The kazooist of Tiddlesworth

Cynics

Out-riddling the judge

From your lips to Christ's ears

The traditional piñata

The standard lay of the case

I am making all things new

Hercules and the moon men

The privilege of youth and beauty

Draco's law

Conversation in an unremarkable stairwell of the Met

Shocking tales of redundancy

The final decision of Gaius Petronius Arbiter

A short necessary treatise on humility

I prefer the person talking herself out of something over him talking himself in

Crazy wisdom

The Museum of Clarity

Drinking fountain tour of the city

But god plain forms with elegance does crown

You forget it in people

The final renovation

Takes a lot of pills to make Jesus

Typical toxic playbook

Young cuckoo seeks nest, bring own feathers

The Greeks regretting the invention of theatre

Translated to bird

Sky burial.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Vincent, John Emil, 1969- Ganymede's dog.

ISBN:

9780773559097

0773559094

OCLC:

1089865069