Knife throwing through self hypnosis : poems / Robin Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Canada--21st century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Misfit/ECW Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona . . . With Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. Yearning, unapologetic women who delight in the monsters they’ve created make these poems “a shield made of braids, / bassinet of broadswords,” and “a ghost-like choir where a love affair / becomes a pulp-book, plotted perfectly to end.”.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""How Gods Go on the Road ""; ""Vlad the Uninspired ""; ""Salem: Unofficial Transcript ""; ""Maybe Even Realer ""; ""The Second Coming: I'm Afraid of Almost Everything ""; ""When Vacation Means the Feasting of the Sea ""; ""Mercutio a family history ""; ""Mercutio a personal history ""; ""How Gods Are Made - Part Two ""; ""Thora the Pilgrim ""; ""Thora at Thirteen ""; ""Feral in Killarney ""; ""Inheritance ""; ""Mike Kooh's Palliative Care Unit ""; ""The Future Should Not Be Shared ""; ""Tertiary Characters: A Beheading ""

""Using Line to Measure Weirdness """"Adriatic Daybreak ""; ""Only Fools Tell Secrets indoors ""; ""The Pilot of Flight 146 ""; ""Bass Enterprise: How Gossip Girl Caught the Devil ""; ""Nay, It Is; I Know Not ""Seems."" ""; ""Bold in the Evening ""; ""Porn Star on Monday Morning ""; ""Abandoned Mannequin Plant ""; ""Highwayhead's Guide to Girls With Overbites ""; ""Disco at the End of Days ""; ""The Leopard Society ""; ""New General Theory of the Gold-Eyed Albino ""; ""Overheard in New York ""; ""Mother Buzzard ""; ""Little Robin Explains Growing Up ""; ""Yasmin ""

""Monte Carlo, Mississauga """"Reflective Surfaces ""; ""Trillium ""; ""Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis ""; ""Lucky Numbers ""; ""Donor ""; ""The Masonic Lodge ""; ""If He Took Me ""; ""Ranavalona ""; ""Portrait in Translucent Ink ""; ""The Gaffer ""; ""Elizabeth Taylor in The Sandpiper ""; ""Obviously, Doctor, You've Never Been a Twelve-Year-Old Girl ""; ""Of Course He Has a Knife. We All Have Knives. It's 1183 and We're Barbarians. ""; ""Nevernever ""; ""It Looks Fake, I Like It ""; ""Better Davis, Blinded by a Flea-sized Nebula, Resumes Her Role Like the Old Pro That She Is ""

""Scenes from the Spoke Club """"E.B. Farnum ""; ""Jerry Springer: Colour Chart ""; ""White Heat ""; ""Princess Leia to a Lovesick Stormtrooper ""; ""Lickspittle ""; ""Space Mutiny ""; ""Heart as Bargaining Chip: Story of a Small-Town Girl ""; ""Vertigo ""; ""Maddy Joe from Port Credit Road ""; ""Wherever We Are ""; ""Brownies Are Best Friends Forever ""; ""If My Children ""; ""On Guilt ""; ""I Dig My Rock Bottomness: A Holiday Poem ""; ""All About Eve ""; ""Second Annual Symposium of Indignity ""; ""My Voice, in My Mouth ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Notes ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 25, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-77090-435-2

OCLC:

857365076