Floating is everything / Sheryda Warrener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warrener, Sheryda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (51 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2015]

Summary:

Sheryda Warrener's second poetry collection touches on the illusion of remaining grounded and a sense of belonging. A retired cosmonaut returns from a record-breaking 438 days in space and attempts to re-immerse himself in the world. One speaker considers reinvention from the top floor of the World's Tallest building; another, our complicated future from Reykjavik, post-eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. Confessions and aspirations suspend in air. Ghosts float in and out; inheritance and connection are called into question. Morrissey, Cindy Sherman, and Pancho Barnes make cameo appearances. Influence and personal lineage are traced back to the Vikings, demoted Pluto, artists frequenting a Parisian bar. One speaker confides: “Yes, she's longing to be elsewhere. Just past the sun deck there's something invisible worth having." In Floating is Everything, a resolution lies nearly always out of reach.

Contents:

Intro

A Sudden Gust

Elemental

We Bought a Little City

Dead Air

I Am a Winning Personality

Fortune, Pioneer

Confession

Pluto Forever

Trace Object

Reincarnation Study 1982

Half-Deflated Heart Balloon

Many Tiny Pagoda

Long Distance

Tectonic

Ghost Hunters

Oh, Yoko

Dark Matter

Petit Pichet

Letter to Mel from East Van

Pools in Florida

Notes on the Poems

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889710504

0889710503

OCLC:

1293248083