| Description |
1 online resource (81 pages) |
| Series |
Hugh MacLennan poetry series |
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Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series; Copyright; Contents; I; II; Acknowledgments; An Invocation of Sorts; The Bench; New Canaan; As Patient of Doctor Ramon; A Note; Pairings; The Soaps; Such Wisdom; California Fado; The Island; The Exquisite Art; The Prodigal; Stories Need Never End Though Most Do; The Bench; Across the Mystic River; Orpheus; Echo; At It; Blues; Meal; Dip; The Green Bird; No Love Lost; Beginning with Isaiah; The Reckoning; The Almighty; In The Metro; Back and Forth; The Bees; Ars Longa, Vita Brevis; Fishing; Morals; Obit; Skills; The Good Brazilian; The Word |
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First One Thing and Then AnotherA Prince's Soliloquy; Biography; Berkeley is in Brazil; Kings; Manual; Some Dance |
| Summary |
"To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am." Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the intersection of stories, of things made up, of things imagined, and of things lived - perhaps. Tricks played by memory, scrambling events from life with fiction, are a constant. Ricardo Sternberg seeks a fixed point from which to understand the world, but finds no resolution save for another poem. Everything is in flux, unstable, and leads to unexpected places: a commune in the 1960s, a drunken doctor who deals in contraband, a palm reader, a classroom visited by Jesus, a dance in a darkened kitchen. A lively collection that turns towards the commonplace, classical, and strange, Some Dance masterfully balances serious thought, big ideas, and good humour through surprising, elegant, and colloquial expressions |
| Notes |
Poems |
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English |
| Subject |
Bodybuilders -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- Canadian.
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Bodybuilders
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| SUBJECT |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
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| Subject |
California -- San Francisco
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773591752 |
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0773591753 |
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9780773591769 |
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0773591761 |
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