Rushes from the river disappointment / Stephanie Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Stephanie, 1965- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 108 pages 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you. This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. Stephanie Roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes are interspersed with the fabulous: a polar bear and owl engage in flirtation, a time traveller appears on a lake, an erotic scene takes place on a train, and we confront "people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony." Roberts's language is dense with images and sometimes acrobatic. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

People Believing Badly p. 3

Tempesta: Tuesday December Twentieth Three Three Three Ay Em p. 4

The Woods of Perhaps p. 5

Forest Nocturne p. 7

Passages North p. 9

Father Son Spirit p. 10

This Is about Being Black p. 12

All Hallow Man p. 14

Boots of Spanish Leather p. 16

The Opening Liturgy of the Morning's First Draft is All Fucking While the Evening Makes Love as the Good Poet Puts It p. 17

I never tire of the moon p. 19

Set Fire to Stop Fire p. 20

Something Terrible Is Going to Happen p. 21

Catching Sight of The Niña The Pinta and The Santa Maria p. 23

Off Hours p. 24

Commute the Sentence p. 26

Tinder of the "Desperate Man" p. 27

The Physics of Love and Other Uncertain Phases of the Chemistry in Coulomb's Law p. 28

Tame p. 35

The Week-Late Answer to that Hot-Tempered Text on My Birthday p. 36

I/U p. 37

Now I Know p. 39

Re: stacks p. 41

Middle-Age Cartwheel p. 43

The Lovers Quarrel p. 45

Slim Tuesday p. 46

Scene V p. 47

Winter Aubade p. 48

How the Wind Heels You p. 50

Hold Desire as Sand p. 52

Black Lashes & White Pickup Accents p. 56

Love Like a Waning Moon p. 58

Come Back and Solve for x p. 59

Soft Part p. 60

A Firefly Turns on the Evening's First Light p. 62

No Such Forever p. 63

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Frog p. 64

Via Rail Dreaming p. 66

Part for Me p. 68

In Answer to My I Love You p. 70

Make the Next Second Chance p. 75

Nerve Damage p. 77

If We Are Savage & Lucky p. 78

If We Ate Savage & Lucky II p. 80

Vision p. 82

The Wall p. 85

Reasonable Amount of Tenderness p. 87

Of Course This Brick p. 89

Germinate p. 90

Circle Earth: Meditation After Reading Tropic of Cancer p. 92

Canadian Goose Summer p. 94

One Two Three Touch or How Not to Dance the Bachata p. 95

With Soft Eyes She Learned to See the Curvatures of Spacetime in the Omnipresent Grid of Hope and Then Cry Accordingly p. 96

OMFG: Until the Tyger Learns How to Write p. 98

Rushes from the River Disappointment p. 100

Overcast p. 102.

Other Format:

Online version: Roberts, Stephanie, 1965- Rushes from the river disappointment.

ISBN:

0228001676

9780228001676

OCLC:

1126211543