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When Whales Went Back to the Water.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baird, Lisa.
- Series:
- Robert Kroetsch Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (77 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Baird's poems traverse through joy, loss, parenting, domestic violence, and isolation. Steely, tender, and sensual, this collection creates a reverent container for a broken world.
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- I
- When Whales Went Back to the Water
- Poem That Wanted to Be an Apple
- It Is Relevant That I'm Ovulating
- Explanation
- The Biggest Disappointment of My 16th Year
- She Says, I don't think I'm going to fall for you
- An Alternate Universe in Which My Trauma Response Is Made of Birds
- Time Machine
- The Day Dad Starts Hitting My Younger Brother
- The First Time I Go Skinny-Dipping
- In Defence of Purple
- Poem That Wanted to Be an Icicle
- She Says It's Dangerous to Open Umbrellas Indoors
- Why I Thought Dating Women Would Be Safer
- On Seeing the Word Trauma Graffitied on a Garbage Bin
- The Mouth Is Your Hardest and Softest Place
- Blue Angel
- Ode to the Mississauga Women's Clinic
- II
- All His Ex- Girlfriends Are Monstrous
- Affirming Femme
- You Don't Understand
- You Could Have Said Something
- You Leave the House for Three Different Reasons
- At the End of the Visit
- Near the End
- The Night You Break Up He Regresses Again
- How to Win after Leaving
- III
- If You Sing It Slowly Enough
- Start with an Ode to the Toddler's Lung Capacity
- Facts about Yellow
- Facts about Gravity
- IV
- Field Guide
- The Cooper's Hawk That Had a Meal
- On Day 22 I Learn My Little Brother Has Covid
- Permission
- Good News
- Trespassing Again at the Everton Cascade
- Echolocation
- Day 217
- Waiting for Owls
- Ode to the Ampersand
- Facts about Coyotes
- Acknowledgements
- We Do Nothing Alone
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781772128123
- 1772128120
- 9781772128130
- 1772128139
- OCLC:
- 1507846259
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