My Account Log in

1 option

Lookin' for joy / Beth Goobie.

Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.G613 L66 2022
Loading location information...

Available This item is available for access.

Log in to request item
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Goobie, Beth, 1959- author.
Contributor:
Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Canadian poetry--21st century.
Canadian poetry.
Canadian poetry--Women authors.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
ix, 115 pages ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Looking for joy
Place of Publication:
Holstein, Ontario : Exile Editions, [2022]
Summary:
"From the widely praised writer comes her fourth collection of startlingly original poetry."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: At the Mic
The Civilization Inside My Head
The Girl with the Origami Soul
The small Big
How to Make an Angel Giggle
The Piano at the Centre of the Universe
The Reader
In Praise of the Gloomy Day
Why I Love the Accordion
Conversations
If I Were an Astronaut's Love Child
Painting Mrs. Demerais
The Story Underneath
Death Is a Pear
Waiting
The Great House
If I Made the World
Civilization lives in the throat
Evening Street Festival
The Book of Breathings
Hypnagogia
Ode to the Mind
The Prophesy
Keepers of the Flame
Sucked So Dry
You're Angry
The Cerebral Cathedral
Let Come
Teenage Girls
Persephone Omen
The Holy Places of the Earth
Love and Bone
You Kill My Joy
The Crazery of Slavery
From the Chorus Line at the Private Men's Club
I'm a Conspiracy Theory, Google Me @ Ordinary Soul
Story of the Atom
Petal
This Hello Says Goodbye
I Poem You
To Pull the Sword from the Stone
Swearing Saved My Life
Daughter of the A Minor Scale
Nightlight
Wannabe Witch
Old Men
God Under the Thumb
Old Friends
The Bitch I Wear
The Dangerous Time
Spinster Power
Farewell to the Tin Cans
The Next Big Thing
To Those Who Edit the Exclamation Marks Out of Happiness!
The Big Ballyrama
If You Are a Poem
My Old Shirt
The Messiah, the Jets' Hockey Arena, 1979
Respect Where It's Due
Astonished on 8th Street
The Wild of You
Conversations with Death
You Are Story
Poet Enough
Dissection
Lookin for Joy
When No One's Listening.
Notes:
Poems.
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Other Format:
Goobie, Beth, 1959- Lookin' for joy.
ISBN:
9781550969771
1550969773
OCLC:
1299307042
Publisher Number:
99993474620

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account