wild horses / Rob Mclennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLennan, Rob, author.

Series:

Currents (Edmonton, Alta.)

cuRRents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Canadian--Ontario.

Poets, Canadian.

Canada--Poetry.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages).

Place of Publication:

Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cast during his year in the U of A's writer in residency, wild horses is Ottawan rob mclennan's deep lyrical engagement with Edmonton, Alberta. He sees the new terrain through his peculiar, sympathising lens--characterised by impassioned tones that range from brusque to tender. There is something of the magpie in him: nothing escapes his subtle gaze, his flighty wit, his voracious gleaning of experience. His supple lines meander and flit over scapes of love, home, family, and literature, rewarding the magpie-minded with a lucid estrangement to things both unfamiliar and familiar.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

a short walk into exile

at the edge of prairie there are no secrets

alberta notebooks:

spare change

power plant

hair of the dog

eleven lines of itchy sorrow

the hills (the northern lights)

rear window

prose, a novel

after having spent so much time indoors

poem that echoes an earlier poem

madrigal for john & jean

the window of walls at the top of the world

on the edge of prairie there are no secrets

& if all the rest is dross

an opening of the plains

lost in translation

my life as a dead north-west explorer

wild horses

rereading paige ackerson-kiely on the airplane back to edmonton

'the girl from abbotsford'

poem for west edmonton mall

poem listening to my daughter at a distance of some thousand miles

a possible film treatment for the rest of the afternoon

sex at thirty-eight

After Spicer

map of edmonton

for/after erin mouré

map of edmonton (prelude)

map of edmonton (rossdale flats)

map of edmonton (garneau)

map of edmonton (mill creek)

map of edmonton (saskatchewan drive)

map of edmonton (belgravia)

map of edmonton (birthday)

map of edmonton (windsor park)

map of edmonton (allandale)

map of edmonton (airport)

map of edmonton (michaels park)

map of edmonton (rossdale)

acknowledgements

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780888647719

0888647719

OCLC:

869282828