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Author Haysom, Jenny, 1972- author.

Title Dividing the wayside / Jenny Haysom
Published Windsor, Ontario : Palimpsest Press, 2018

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Unfastened; Something Between Us; A Lesson; The Mite; First Death in Nova Scotia; A Chain Reaction; Our first apartment; Arrhythmia; Burning the Book (with my poems in it); Memento; They say you can't go home again, ; Spooked; Minnowing; Happy Birthday; Sized; Perspective; Keep to this Room; Reunion; Angel of Repose; Wherever I May Find Her:; House Tour; Artefacts; Herbarium; Dashes; Under Influence; Dear Master, ; Last Respects; One Emily; Toward the Blue Peninsula; Stirring the Firmament; The New Colonialism; Reporting; Spin-off; Scrapyard
LesserSticks; Stones; Waking in Larkin's Aubade; Invitation to Elizabeth Bishop; Unearthed; Haiku in March; Ostalgie; Four postcards and an umbrella from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Wet Grass Blues; Haiku in June; The Minister of Loneliness; Saturday; Dürer's Melencolia; Ode to Consumption; His Nibs; Nightwalk; Vanitas; Beautiful Soup; The Winged Kama Sutra; Gargoyle; Henderson Island; Nocturne; Persona Albada; Notes; Acknowledgements; About the Author
Summary The liminal strip that divides the highway from the surrounding land is called a wayside. Often thick with wildflowers and insects, it's a natural space that coexists with traffic and exhaust. In Dividing the Wayside, Haysom likewise navigates the territory in between, searching the intricate periphery of experience for hidden meaning and beauty. Her voice is passionate, charming and ironic, her language precise and musical
Notes Poems
Subject Canadian poetry -- 21st century
Canadian poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
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