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The pit / Tara Borin.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.B6773 P58 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borin, Tara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Poetry.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Set in a small-town, sub-Arctic dive bar, this debut poetry collection explores the complexities of addiction and the person beneath, and the possibility of finding home and community in unexpected places. Among Borin's poems are portraits of the bar's regular customers and employees--recurring characters, like those who might appear in a dark and unconventional sitcom. The religious night janitor catalogues the day's sins; the retired barmaid gussies up at the mirror; the regular customers and their regular habits are described to a new employee: "R has a two-drink limit. A likes a coaster. Remember, / Mrs. O takes a chilled pilsner glass / with her bottle of Blue." In the melancholy atmosphere of the bar and the rooms upstairs, the speakers of Borin's poems find unexpected solace and belonging. The habits, the routine, the regulars, the predictability of it all brings some kind of chaotic order to chaotic life: We drink without even having to think about it, because it feels good to lose control, feels like regaining it."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Beer Parlour
- Desire Paths
- Church Key
- List of Duties in a Subarctic Dive Bar
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Father's Day
- Total Eclipse
- Cribbage & Chill
- Rooms For Rent
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Home
- Wraith
- Drunk Tank
- Last Night
- We'll Never Have Enough of This
- The Regulars
- Dearest
- Night Janitor
- Offering
- Portrait of the Water-Witcher
- Portrait of the Retired Barmaid
- Reasons
- The Hard Stuff
- The Addict's Wife
- Punch
- Telephone
- Enough
- At the Cop Shop
- Pit Kid
- Last Call
- Rest Stop in Pelly Crossing
- Flood
- One for the Ditch
- Romance Capital
- The Wall.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Borin, Tara. Pit.
- ISBN:
- 9780889713949
- 0889713944
- OCLC:
- 1198602248
- Publisher Number:
- 99989053875
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