Hearts amok : a memoir in verse / Kevin Spenst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spenst, Kevin, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : Anvil Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings and tolling of one love-struck heart in Surrey, British Columbia. Examining the underpinnings of love, this book journeys from the Middle Ages to the present where Spenst dates his way through Vancouver to finally find the love of his life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Gallant Moodier

Apologia from Hoboken, Christendom

A Worshipful Deriding of Flimflam

In the Boxcar of Surrey around Guildford Castle

A Goatherd's Palaver Clackety-Clacks

To Risk Throwing the Guts

Summer Crashes High School

Cupid: the Duke of Trauma

To Buss, Snog or Suaviate in the Language of Yes

Eire's Intractabilities

The Blinding Light!! Cinema (1998-2003)

Lucky Means Finding

The Waverley Pub

Hands Held at Symbiotic Angles

Epithalamium

What Persons Are Fit for Love?

Falling Asleep for Ten Years

The Yegg and the Queen in the Tower

Cuckolded in Schwarzwald

Soggy Bottom Boy

The Opposite of Face Blindness

A Play within a Play in Mount Pleasant, Ontario

Bee's Knees to a Tillandsia

To Victoria Park's Glad Rags

Lumbering Upstairs

When What's-His-Face Met What's-Her-Name

Rom-Com to Pemberton

As If the Candid Camera of Catholicism

Quiddity

Spiralling Bright

The Hobo's Tale

Righty and Lefty on the Pump Trolley

Padding the Hoof through Resident Evil

The Word Trinity Isn't Mentioned Once in the Bible

Holding it Together on a Tragicomic Tour

Disorientations

The Summer I Dated Everyone

Another Number of First Dates

Saint Maroun Was a Mystic Who Crowd-Surfed on the Hands of Date Number Five's Ancestors

Lover, Beloved, Baloney Free Kisses

The Summer I Dated Most Everyone

How Do I Lust after Thee?

Read This with Your Device Held Horizontally

You'll Hate This Because It Sounds Like a Story

Upend

The Architecture of a Rock

The Last First Date

On the Road of Sighs Around False Creek

Above Picasso and His Tussie-Mussies

That Summer I Dated Everyone (Part Two)

Out of One's Tree

The Woman Who Once Lived in a Bus

In Our Most Porous Places

Hurricane-Held Abodes

General Theories of Love

Third Testament

I love you, i'm uncomfortable

Seismology Counts

Ducks and Rabbits Facing East and West

Epilogue Logos Flip and Sigh

Popping Proposals in the Boodle of Now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781772141498

1772141496

OCLC:

1142180791

Publisher Number:

99986459096