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A year of last things : poems / by Ondaatje, Michael,1943-author.;
"From one of the most influential writers of this generation, a gorgeous and most of all surprising collection of poems about memory, love, and longing, and the act of looking back. Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Moliere's chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to a California coast, and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges his past and present, in the way memory and the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence all that surrounds him. As in this startling passage from his poem "His Chair, A Narrow Bed, A Motel Room, The Fox": At the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles Sam Cooke was shot dead. 'See my shadow on the wall ... ' All those motels and hotels in literature and song, where X wrote this, where Y got drunk, where Z overdosed. The one Hank Williams was driven past, dead already in his car. The Slaviansky Bazaar Hotel in Lady with a Dog where Dmitri imagines their dark but hopeful future. The Hotel du Grand Miroir in Brussels where Baudelaire lived his last few months. (A decade later Verlaine shot Rimbaud there.) The Casa Verdi in Milan where retired opera singers were welcome along with the various heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa in their afterlife."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Poetry.; Canadian poetry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The first little bastard to call me Gramps : poems of the late middle ages / by Richardson, Bill,1955-author.; Bickadoroff, Roxanna,illustrator.;
Subjects: Aging.; Canadian wit and humor.; Humorous poetry, English.; Poetry, Canadian.;
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Xanax cowboy : poems / by Green, Hannah(Author of Xanax cowboy),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Hannah Green's edgy, often darkly comedic debut, Xanax Cowboy, is a long poem that considers the romanticization of addiction and mental illness (particularly in relation to the notion of the artist) via the romanticization of the Wild West. Cowboys are supposed to be messed up, a bit raw around the edges. The speaker wants to be loved for this too, and doesn't care if she is the only one laughing. The long poem is known for its resistance to form and expectation. Xanax Cowboy is as obsessed with itself as other long poems. It is vain. It is ridiculous. It is a tangent with new shapes, line breaks, and metaphors. Highly referential, mostly in terms of pop culture and iconography -- drawing from sources such as Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and the films of Quentin Tarantino -- Xanax Cowboy also deploys a specifically feminist approach, giving it additional urgency and energy. Xanax Cowboy insists on its variety of form and approach. Its strangeness. Its boldness. Its smoking pistols. Prepare yourself for a whiskey-drenched Western where pills fall from the sky and the speaker swallows Hollywood's version of the cowboy, its loneliness resting in her belly.
Subjects: Poetry.; Canadian poetry; Canadian poetry; Cowboys; Mental illness;
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The sun and her flowers / by Kaur, Rupi,author,illustrator.;
Illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms. This is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms.
Subjects: Poetry.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Love poetry.; Grief; Canadian poetry (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The idea of an entire life : poems / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
"Daring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt. In The Idea Of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of 21st century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. Through lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments, the poems, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes slyly humorous, are always finely crafted, putting to use the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt's body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of both grief and awe"--
Subjects: Poetry.; Canadian poetry; Gay men; Indigenous peoples; Cree;
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Thanks for Thanksgiving / by Patterson, Heather,1945-; Gerber, Mary Jane;
Subjects: Thanksgiving Day, Canadian; Children's poetry, Canadian (English); Thanksgiving Day;
© c1998., Scholastic,
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Melvis and Elvis / by Lee, Dennis,1939-; Tankard, Jeremy.;
Melvis the monster and Elvis the elf go hunting for books on the library shelf... A collection of 30 humorous poems about monsters, elves, reading, friendship and more.LSC
Subjects: Monsters; Elves; Books and reading; Friendship; Children's poetry, Canadian (English); Humorous poetry, Canadian (English);
© 2015., HarperCollins,
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Approaching fire / by Porter, Michelle,author.;
"In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor."
Subjects: Biographies.; Poetry.; Goulet, Léon-Robert.; Fiddlers; Metis; Canadian poetry.;
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The Penguin treasury of popular Canadian poems and songs / by Colombo, John Robert,1936-;
Subjects: Canadian poetry (English); Songs, English; Songs, French;
© c2002., Penguin,
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Gonna keep dancing [sound recording] / by Douglas, Eddie;
Armadillo stomp -- Dirty dog boogie -- Kids love lemonade -- Happy vacation -- Morning moon -- Big shadow, little shadow -- Old Mrs. Schmatterbung -- Dancing song -- Pets -- Taffy Mahaffey -- Water in my ear -- Once upon a time -- Feet -- Thank you world.Eddie Douglas, vocals, acoustic guitar, mandola ; with acc. musicians and vocalists.A collection of poems by Jo Ellen Bogart, Loris Lesynski, Robert Munsch and Charles Wilkins set to music by Eddie Douglas.
Subjects: Children's songs; Children's songs; Children's poetry, Canadian (English);
© p2007., Fat Flea Music,
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