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The lost cafeteria / Joel Robert Ferguson ; Clarise Foster, editor.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.F4692 L68 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Joel Robert, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 98 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exploring the shape of the "I-within-history," Ferguson mixes confessional lyric poetry with experimental détournements of advertising and human resources ideolects to visit (and revisit) themes of labour, family (biological and chosen), class, travel, religion, and the meanings of the word "home." "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Kitchen Debates
- Capacity
- Walking Backwards
- Twenties
- Rucksack Elegy
- The Kitchen Debates, Early-to-Mid 2008
- Riding Freight
- Shooting Guns with the Europeans
- Bughouse
- An Economy Like Any Other
- A Few Train-Hoppers
- Quickening Cities
- A Directory of Enchanted Trash
- 2. Closed Space
- Shunpiking
- On Site Over Surface
- After Turner's Stags
- Boxing Day at the Fort Garry Palm Lounge
- Ghost Hunting at the Ninette Sanitorium
- The Folly Arch
- Historical Drama
- Halifax: Colonial Shards
- Percocet on Election Night, 2016
- Aubade of the Oprichniki
- The Hotel Universel
- Apartment Hunting near the Jolicoeur Metro
- Maud Lewis Houses
- Night Roads, Long Exposure
- Closed Space, 1988
- Distance, Love, Sum
- Common Coin
- Paris Syndrome in New York
- 3. The Lost Cafeteria
- Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, New Year's Morning
- On-the-job Braining
- Nightsoil
- Downtown After Dessert
- Spring Without End
- Cool Universe
- The Lonely Numerous
- Tower Block Cleaner
- Creatures of the Field
- Moon Poem for Coleridge
- Something Yet Deserves to Live
- Rush Our Bus
- 4. Sweeter Thru Difficulties
- Ora et Labora
- The Berlin Wall, Again and Again
- His Whitetails at the Northern Shore
- A Catalogue Mandolin
- Bed Leaves Red Fall
- The News
- The Eschatongues
- Bona Fide Masters
- Head in the Clouds
- Patch Work
- The White Horse
- Continental.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1773240641
- 9781773240640
- OCLC:
- 1126550509
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