Queen and carcass / Anna van Valkenburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Valkenburg, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : A Feed Dog book, an imprint of Anvil Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Queen and Carcass is a rich, unpredictable, and deeply surreal exploration of identity and the multiple contradictions we each embody. These poems, set in locations real and imaginary, magical and banal, inhabited by figures out of Slavic folklore and a Boschian landscape, strive to unearth truths, especially those that are difficult or uncomfortable, using Bertolt Brecht's maxim "Do not fear death so much as an inadequate life" as a touchstone."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Melodies

My First Home Asks to Be Remembered

Binoculars

The Imaginary Town of Grimm

Citadel

Letter from a Real Town: 1

Culture

Ecology in Dream Form

Letter to a Real Town: 11/21 Hard Truth

Letters from a Native Tongue

Rusalka as Artist

A Portrait of Serving Girls as Nightingales

Dawn at the Edge of the Woods

Knowledge

Lessons

Little Red in Love

Looking Down Zakole Street

Letter to a Real Town: III

The Thorn and the Wash Basin

II

Snow White Gives Birth to an Apple

Steady Flashes

A Frozen Plum Tells Time

Fern & Gardener

Holdup

After War

I didn't know

Animal Park

Sleep

A Child Died/51 On Perspective

Baba Yaga in Love

The Truth Is

Food Cart

Genie

A Portrait of Rusalka Hanging From a Birch Tree

III

Sharpness

You Found Red Affection

Dentist

Forest

Bruegel's Lent Speaks to Carnival

Faith

On How My Uncle Returned to Babel

At Last You're Here

Thoughts on Humanity

To Our Future Children

The Weight

Lessons in Philosophy

Rusalka Kisses the Prince

Cadmium Red

Your palms

Rusalka Stained

Two Ends of a Roof

Clearing.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781772141696

1772141690

OCLC:

1184658175

Publisher Number:

99987411570