Some dance / Ricardo Sternberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sternberg, Ricardo, 1948- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] ; London [Ontario] ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am." Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the intersection of stories, of things made up, of things imagined, and of things lived - perhaps. Tricks played by memory, scrambling events from life with fiction, are a constant. Ricardo Sternberg seeks a fixed point from which to understand the world, but finds no resolution save for another poem. Everything is in flux, unstable, and leads to unexpected places: a commune in the 1960s, a drunken doctor who deals in contraband, a palm reader, a classroom visited by Jesus, a dance in a darkened kitchen. A lively collection that turns towards the commonplace, classical, and strange, Some Dance masterfully balances serious thought, big ideas, and good humour through surprising, elegant, and colloquial expressions.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""I""; ""An Invocation of Sorts""; ""The Bench""; ""New Canaan""; ""As Patient of Doctor Ramon""; ""A Note""; ""Pairings""; ""The Soaps""; ""Such Wisdom""; ""California Fado""; ""The Island""; ""The Exquisite Art""; ""The Prodigal""; ""Stories Need Never End Though Most Do""; ""The Bench""; ""II""; ""Across the Mystic River""; ""Orpheus""; ""Echo""; ""At It""; ""Blues""; ""Meal""; ""Dip""; ""The Green Bird""; ""No Love Lost""; ""Beginning with Isaiah""; ""The Reckoning""; ""The Almighty""; ""In The Metro""

""Back and Forth""""The Bees""; ""Ars Longa, Vita Brevis""; ""Fishing""; ""Morals""; ""Obit""; ""Skills""; ""The Good Brazilian""; ""The Word""; ""First One Thing and Then Another""; ""A Prince�s Soliloquy""; ""Biography""; ""Berkeley is in Brazil""; ""Kings""; ""Manual""; ""Some Dance""; ""Acknowledgments""

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9780773591769

0773591761

9780773591752

0773591753

OCLC:

876861005