| Description |
1 online resource (95 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- The Big Heart -- Epiphany -- Attenborough -- Walk to School -- The Chauffeur -- The Midwife Advises Me -- This Strange Thing Happened the Day You Were Born -- The Difficult Ones -- Origami -- Fox's Sleep -- Murmuration Digression -- On the Resourcefulness of Others -- All Hands on Deck -- Still Full of Arrows -- The Widening -- Albert County Breeder -- A White Tent Goes Up -- Troy -- What Are You Waiting For? -- The Heart Speaks -- I Believe You Still Have My Key -- Sonnet in Waiting Room -- Against Confession -- How It Worked -- Falling in Love -- Octopus Laser -- Stun Guns |
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Flowers for All Occasions -- Then -- The Rising Action -- Wild Exile -- At the Foundling Home -- Back to the Land -- Lambing Season -- Wedding in Rimouski -- Juice -- The Dress -- It Comes Back -- Dénouement -- Flowers for All Occasions -- The Falling Action -- The News -- Mink Attack -- You Can't Take It with You -- As a Pigeon in Its Dovecote -- The Art of Waiting -- The End -- The Saving of Things -- The Heiress -- On Being a Sculptor -- Room 317, Chateau de Champlain -- A Visitation -- Tell Me What to Do -- The Heiress -- Fox's Sleep Revisited -- Woolf Digression -- Chance Harbour |
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Nor Do I Want To -- Valentine -- Joy in the Cloisters -- Overheard at the Sports Centre -- The Residency -- Blanche -- You Bring It Home with You -- Supper Hour -- The Standstill -- Killing the Dream -- In the Figurative Barn -- When in Pompeii -- The Row House -- Domestic Scene -- Darling Citizen -- Joy in the Cloisters |
| Summary |
A love story to the emotional self--this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life--the kid who says to your face that she prefers her other parent; the father monkeying around in the art gallery; the mother who ""g |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Families -- Poetry
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Parent and child -- Poetry
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Spouses -- Poetry
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Spouses.
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Parent and child.
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Families.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1771315377 |
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9781771315388 |
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1771315385 |
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9781771315371 |
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