| Description |
1 online resource (81 pages) |
| Series |
The Hugh MacLennan poetry series |
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Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS -- ONE -- Ultra Sound -- Blocks -- First Dream -- Gloucester�s Dover -- Palilalia -- Museum -- The Shambles: A House -- Garden Variation -- Vanishing Point -- Spoken For -- TWO -- While We Grow Tired, Like Swimmers -- Life-guard and Four Echoes -- Home Body -- Riddle -- Lesson by Candle-light -- THREE EROGENOUS ZONES -- Catch -- Cashew -- Cave -- Rescue -- Dock -- Seed -- After Eggplant Shopping -- Ode on a Henry Moore -- Sewer -- FOUR -- Still Life with Jar and Flower -- A Gloss on “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry� |
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Before and AfterTimed Exposure -- Hereafter I -- Hereafter II -- Where We Are Now -- Let -- Enter, Puck -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Palilalia is disordered speech. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this lesser known vocal tic is "an involuntary repetition of words, phrases or sentences." Sister to echolalia (repeating what others say), and distant cousin to the more forbidding coprolalia (the involuntary use of obscene language), palilalia can feel, on the one hand, like an affliction to be suppressed, and on the other, like a kind of meditative mantra that focuses and intensifies your thought. "Your repetitious tics," the ghost of the poet's mentor, Northrop Frye, tells him, are " the ecstatic rhapsodist's / St. Vitus Dance, slangster's whizzle / and conjuration, philologist's hullabaloo." It isn't a question of how to stop them, but of finding how far they will take you. Jeffery Donaldson offers poems about Tourette's Syndrome, about his loves and blessings, about the erotic life as flavoured by all these, and about the grace of a stillness in the midst of so much mental noise. Paul Val�ry said that a poem is never finished, only abandoned. All poets have palilalia, or should have |
| Notes |
Poems |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Canadian poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- General.
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Canadian poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773574632 |
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0773574638 |
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