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I am the big heart / Sarah Venart.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.V46 I2 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venart, Sarah, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Poetry.
- Families.
- Spouses.
- Parent and child--Poetry.
- Parent and child.
- Spouses--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 98 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, ON : Brick Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- A love story to the emotional self--this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. -- What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life--the kid who says to your face that she prefers her other parent; the father monkeying around in the art gallery; the mother who "gets on with it" in silence; the husband, distant and intimate under the marriage yoke. There is also in this collection the stirring of wilder desires than family is supposed to nurture, feelings more fiercely self-assertive than a parent--a mother particularly--is supposed to admit. This collection asks how to rise to the occasions that family presents and also how to let oneself spill over the bounds of familial roles. Venart's poems reach into the past but don't get lost there; they look the present in the face--they have to: the clock is ticking, the children calling, there are hot dogs to be sliced and the dog won't walk itself. The title is ironic. And also kind of secretly stoically hoping that it's not ironic. But it is: -- ?And now everyone is arrow arrow, arrows. Everyone harpoons. And I am the big heart, aren't I? When my black dog was being put down, in her last second I whispered, Squirrel. -- "Epiphany"
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: THE BIG HEART
- Epiphany
- Attenborough
- Walk to School
- The Chauffeur
- The Midwife Advises Me
- This Strange Thing Happened the Day You Were Born
- The Difficult Ones
- Origami
- Fox's Sleep
- Murmuration Digression
- On the Resourcefulness of Others
- All Hands on Deck
- STILL FULL OF ARROWS
- The Widening
- Albert County Breeder
- A White Tent Goes Up
- Troy
- What Are You Waiting For?
- The Heart Speaks
- I Believe You Still Have My Key
- Sonnet in Waiting Room
- Against Confession
- How It Worked
- Falling in Love
- Octopus Laser
- Stun Guns
- FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
- Then
- The Rising Action
- Wild Exile
- At the Foundling Home
- Back to the Land
- Lambing Season
- Wedding in Rimouski
- Juice
- The Dress
- It Comes Back
- Denouement
- Flowers for All Occasions
- The Falling Action
- The News
- Mink Attack
- You Can't Take It with You
- As a Pigeon in Its Dovecote
- The Art of Waiting
- The End
- The Saving of Things
- THE HEIRESS
- On Being a Sculptor
- Room 317, Chateau de Champlain
- A Visitation
- Tell Me What to Do
- The Heiress
- Fox's Sleep Revisited
- Woolf Digression
- Chance Harbour
- Nor Do I Want To
- Valentine
- JOY IN THE CLOISTERS
- Overheard at the Sports Centre
- The Residency
- Blanche
- You Bring It Home with You
- Supper Hour
- The Standstill
- Killing the Dream
- In the Figurative Barn
- When in Pompeii
- The Row House
- Domestic Scene
- Darling Citizen
- Joy in the Cloisters.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Venart, Sarah, 1968- I am the big heart.
- ISBN:
- 9781771315364
- 1771315369
- OCLC:
- 1147973319
- Publisher Number:
- 99986913325
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