We shed our skin like dynamite / Conyer Clayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clayton, Conyer, author.

Contributor:

Wolff, Elana, editor.

Series:

First poets series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 20.

First poets series ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept)--Poetry.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite is collection of 48 poems, divided into 3 sections of 16 poems each. It is about the development of identity in your early adulthood. What do you let define you? What do you retain, and what do you let go of? It is about seeking answers in other people, unhealthy relationships, in sex, in booze, in weed, in art, in nature. Perhaps most successfully, in nature. In this collection, I seek to reflect the shaky grounds we all navigate while attempting to craft ourselves. The ethereal feeling of grasping for certitude in all the wrong (but hopefully at some point, right) places. The fog of experimenting with yourself. The haze of your early twenties. The insistent return of the desire for transcendence, and the constant dismissal of it in favour of material coping mechanisms."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Seeds

Blackout

Full Sunlight

Mud Relish

Recoil

Dock Drunk

Intake

Unpopular Knowledge

Skin Shield

Broken Leaf

Tending Towards the Fall

Bone Bed

Home

Trace

Amber

After Green Is Gold

Shower

II. Trap

Southern Belle

Neighbours

Burning

Distracted Backs

Setting an Alarm

Lid

United Air

This Is the Bandage

Buildup

We Hit the Mattress

Swallow the Seeds

Bug-Eyed

I Can Finally See You

Convinced

A Month and a Year

Etiquette

Family History

What You Actually Lost

III. Instructional

You May Not Reach 65

Sleep Breathes

Goodwill Mug

Suddenly Empty Spaces

A Record on Repeat

I Deal With It

The Screen Comes Off Easily

The Sky Has to Cool at Some Point

Reach into the Hollows

Over from the Start

Recurrent

How We Burn

Sediments.

Notes:

Poems.

"Elana Wolff, editor"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781771835091

1771835095

OCLC:

1110577759