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Lookin' for joy / Beth Goobie.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.G613 L66 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goobie, Beth, 1959- author.
- 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
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