Rushes from the river disappointment / Stephanie Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Stephanie, 1965- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you." This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. stephanie roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes are interspersed with the fabulous: a polar bear and owl engage in flirtation, a time traveller appears on a lake, an erotic scene takes place on a train, and we confront "people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony." roberts's language is dense with images and sometimes acrobatic. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

People Believing Badly

Tempesta: Tuesday December Twentieth Three Three Three Ay Em

The Woods of Perhaps

Forest Nocturne

Passages North

Father Son Spirit

This is About Being Black

Allhallowmas

Boots of Spanish Leather

The Opening Liturgy of The Morning's First Draft is All Fucking While The Evening Makes Love as The Good Poet Puts It

i never tire of the moon

Set Fire to Stop Fire

Something Terrible is Going to Happen

Catching Sight of The Niña The Pinta and The Santa Maria

Off Hours

Commute the Sentence

Tinder of The “Desperate Man”

The Physics of Love and Other Uncertain Phases of The Chemistry in Coulomb's law

Tame

The Week-Late Answer to That Hot-Tempered Text on My Birthday

I/U

Now I Know

re: stacks

Middle-Age Cartwheel

The Lovers Quarrel

Slim Tuesday

Scene V

Winter Aubade

How The Wind Heels You

Hold Desire as Sand

Connections

Black Lashes & White Pickup Accents

Love Like A Waning Moon

Come Back and Solve For X

Soft Part

A Firefly Turns on The Evening's First Light

No Such Forever

Twenty-Four Hours in The Life of A Frog

Via Rail Dreaming

Part For Me

In Answer to My I Love You

Make The Next Second Chance

Nerve Damage

If We Are Savage & Lucky

If We Are Savage & Lucky II

Vision

The Wall

Reasonable Amount of Tenderness

Of Course This Brick

Germinate

Circle Earth: Meditation After Reading Tropic of Cancer

Canadian Goose Summer

One Two Three Touch Or How Not To Dance The Bachata

With Soft Eyes She Learned to See The Curvatures of Spacetime in The Omnipresent Grid of Hope and then Cry Accordingly

OMFG: Until the Tyger Learns How to Write

Rushes From The River Disappointment

Overcast

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0301-6

OCLC:

1141186131