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Strangers : poems / Rob Taylor.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.T386 S77 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Rob, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life--Poetry.
- Life.
- Memory--Poetry.
- Memory.
- Families--Poetry.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Windsor, ON : Biblioasis, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this." In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace Stevens' phrase, "a revelation in words by means of the words." The epiphany here is not only the poet's. It's ours. A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of the lineages (literary, artistic, familial) that it braids together--to become, as Richard Outram puts it, an "unspoken / Stranger no longer.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Strangers
- You ask me about my mother
- Smoothing the Holy Surfaces
- That Scar
- Lunch
- Speak When Illuminated
- A Normal Day
- Love, fidelity, etc.
- The bucket is blue and deep and brims with cool water
- Aubade
- Weather in Dublin
- Ultrasound
- The Future
- Colic
- Transatlantic
- November, Six a.m.
- The Jockey of Artemision
- One Lie
- Krakatoa
- 3M
- What Wisdom's in Wisdom Recorded?
- At Roblin Lake
- Voices
- The Artist
- The Long Goodbye
- Stroking your back through a nightmare
- Poems
- King Tide
- The Commons
- Lazienki Park
- On the Occasion of my Mother First Forgetting my Name
- The Baffled King
- Diagnosis
- What did you dream about?
- Most days you still remember
- Old Game
- Why and Why
- Transmission Tower
- Reprieve
- Return to Roblin
- Are your flies grass, like mine?
- Matryoshka
- Now I must be gentle
- Long Distance.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Taylor, Rob, 1983- Strangers.
- ISBN:
- 9781771964197
- 1771964197
- OCLC:
- 1228510706
- Publisher Number:
- 99989045688
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