Song and spectacle / Rachel Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Rachel, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Song and Spectacle, the third collection by award-winning poet Rachel Rose, is composed of fierce hymns to the particular and universal struggles of birth, passion and loss, and the paradoxical quest for non-attachment in a treacherous, unpredictable and yet deeply beloved world.Rose delves into the world of myth, using the stories of Daphne and Peneus, Shamhat and Enkidu and Grendel's mother to create new allegories for our times. Her poems also explore the aftereffects of suicide on those left behind, the truths of lesbian motherhood and the exquisite splendour of the natural world. Thus, ev

Contents:

""Ways to Begin a Poem""; ""Willingness""; ""What We Heard About the Heart""; ""Heartsong""; ""Uncut Wood""; ""The Ten Thousand Things""; ""What We Heard About Rain""; ""Rain Song""; ""Maternal Sapphics I""; ""Maternal Sapphics II""; ""Maternal Sapphics III""; ""Lullaby""; ""Pinocchio""; ""What We Heard About Orphans""; ""Orphan Song""; ""What We Heard About Abortionists""; ""Inside""; ""Spectacle & Feast""; ""Bat""; ""Laureate""; ""Recipe for a Poem""; ""What We Heard About the Mob""; ""What the Mob Perhaps Heard""; ""Fags Die, God Laughs""; ""What We Heard About the Americans""

""What We Heard About the Canadians""""Hymn to Shit: Four Movements""; ""Ablution""; ""A Mystery""; ""Daphne to Peneus""; ""Aubade: Grendel�s Mother""; ""Aubade: Buddha�s Wife""; ""Song for the Unbeliever Who Wishes to Believe""; ""Shamhat to Enkidu""; ""Cock Song""; ""Rose Song""; ""Tired""; ""The Opposite of War""; ""Drone""; ""Drunk""; ""5 a.m. winter run in fog""; ""What We Heard About the Universe""; ""What the Universe Perhaps Heard""; ""Delivery Room Under Renovation""; ""I Might Be Nothing (Lara�s Song)""; ""What We Heard About the Sea""; ""What the Sea Perhaps Heard""

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ISBN:

9781550176544

1550176544

OCLC:

913562193