15 Canadian Poets X 3

by Gary Geddes

Edition: 4th

ISBN13: 9780195416435

ISBN10: 0195416430

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2001-06-14

Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA

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Summary

This is the fourth edition of Gary Geddes' highly successful anthology of Canadian poetry. All of the poets included in the previous editions have been retained, although their selections have been carefully reconsidered. Among new poets added to this edition are Anne Carson, Dionne Brand,Daphne Marlatt, bpNichol, Louise Bernice Halfe, and Fred Wah. Most poets are represented by several poems, to allow students to gain greater understanding and appreciation for their work.

Author Biography

Gary Geddes is a well known Canadian poet and is the Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University.

Preface

xiii

E.J. Pratt

(14)

Newfoundland

(2)

The Shark

(1)

Sea-gulls

(1)

Erosion

(1)

The Man and the Machine

(1)

From Stone to Steel

(1)

Newfoundland Seamen

(1)

From The Titanic

(6)

Dorothy Livesay

(10)

Fire and Reason

(1)

Going to Sleep

(1)

Spain

(1)

Comrade

(1)

From Call My People Home

(2)

The Unquiet Bed

(1)

The Three Emilys

(1)

Picasso, Sketching

(1)

Bartok and the Geranium

(1)

Without Benefit of Tape

(1)

Sorcery

(1)

Ralph Gustafson

(11)

'S.S.R., Lost at Sea.' The Times

(1)

Now at the Ocean's Verge

(1)

The Newspaper

(1)

Wednesday at North Hatley

(1)

In the Yukon

(1)

I Think of All Soft Limbs

(3)

Ramble on What in the World Why

(1)

The Sun in the Garden

(1)

The Arrival of Wisdom

(1)

At the Cafe at Night

(1)

State of Affairs

(1)

Saint Lawrence Roasted on One Side Asked to be Turned Over

(1)

A.M. Klein

(14)

Heirloom

(1)

Autobiographical

(2)

For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu

(1)

Political Meeting

(1)

Montreal

(2)

Lone Bather

(1)

Portrait of the Poet as Landscape

(5)

Earle Birney

(15)

From the Hazel Bough

(1)

Anglosaxon Street

(2)

David

(6)

Bushed

(1)

Appeal to a Lady with a Diaper

(1)

A Walk in Kyoto

(2)

The Bear on the Delhi Road

(1)

Al Purdy

(16)

Home-made Beer

(1)

The Country North of Belleville

(2)

The Cariboo Horses

(1)

Wilderness Gothic

(1)

Arctic Rhododrendrons

(1)

Lament for the Dorsets

(2)

The Runners

(2)

A Handful of Earth

(2)

Moonspell

(2)

Miriam Waddington

(11)

Girls

(1)

At Midnight

(1)

My Lessons in the Jail

(1)

On My Birthday

(2)

The Mile Runner

(1)

Ukranian Church

(1)

Gossip

(1)

The Survivors

(1)

How I Spent the Year Listening to the Ten O'Clock News

(1)

Ten Years and More

(1)

Lately I've Been Feeling Very Jewish

(1)

F.R. Scott

(11)

Lakeshore

(1)

Old Song

(1)

Laurentian Shield

(1)

Overture

(1)

Charity

(1)

W.L.M.K.

(2)

The Canadian Authors Meet

(1)

Saturday Sundae

(1)

Martinigram

100

(1)

A Lass in Wonderland

100

(2)

Bonne Entente

102

(1)

For Bryan Priestman

102

(1)

Irving Layton

103

(12)

Look, the Lambs Are All Around Us!

105

(1)

The Cold Green Element

106

(1)

The Fertile Muck

107

(1)

On Seeing the Statuettes of Ezekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame

108

(1)

Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom

109

(1)

Berry Picking

110

(1)

Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959

111

(1)

A Tall Man Executes a Jig

112

(3)

P.K. Page

115

(14)

The Stenographers

117

(1)

Landlady

118

(1)

Stories of Snow

119

(1)

Photos of a Salt Mine

120

(2)

The Permanent Tourists

122

(1)

Arras

123

(1)

After Rain

124

(1)

Brazilian Fazenda

125

(1)

Evening Dance of the Grey Flies

126

(1)

Planet Earth

127

(2)

Raymond Souster

129

(9)

Young Girls

131

(1)

Lagoons, Hanlan's Point

131

(1)

Downtown Corner News Stand

132

(1)

Study: The Bath

133

(1)

Flight of the Roller-Coaster

133

(1)

All This Slow Afternoon

134

(1)

The Six-Quart Basket

135

(1)

The Death of the Grenadiers

135

(1)

A Morning in Brussels

135

(1)

Night Raider

136

(1)

Graveyard Shift

136

(1)

Somalia

137

(1)

Phyllis Webb

138

(12)

Love Story

140

(1)

Sitting

141

(1)

A Tall Tale

141

(1)

To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide

142

(1)

Poetics Against the Angel of Death

143

(1)

Rilke

144

(1)

Eschatology of Spring

144

(1)

Prison Report

145

(1)

Treblinka Gas Chamber

146

(1)

Seeking Shape. Seeking Meaning

147

(1)

Cornflowers & Saffron Robes Belittle the Effort

148

(1)

You Have My Approval

149

(1)

Leonard Cohen

150

(13)

Elegy

152

(1)

Story

152

(1)

I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries

153

(1)

You Have the Lovers

154

(1)

As the Mist Leaves No Scar

155

(1)

Now of Sleeping

155

(1)

The Genius

156

(1)

Style

157

(2)

The Music Crept by Us

159

(1)

God Is Alive

159

(1)

How to Speak Poetry

160

(3)

D.G. Jones

163

(12)

Portrait of Anne Hebert

165

(1)

Beautiful Creatures Brief as These

166

(1)

For Francoise Adnet

166

(1)

These Trees Are No Forest of Mourners

167

(1)

Summer Is a Poem by Ovid

168

(1)

The Stream Exposed With All Its Stones

169

(1)

Words from the Aviary

169

(2)

Stumblesong

171

(1)

The Ship as Navigator

172

(1)

Covering Letter

173

(2)

Alden Nowlan

175

(12)

Beginning

177

(1)

Warren Pryor

177

(1)

God Sour the Milk of the Knacking Wench

178

(1)

For Nicholas of All the Russians

178

(1)

And He Wept Aloud, So That the Egyptians Heard It

178

(2)

Britain Street

180

(1)

July 15

181

(1)

The Mysterious Naked Man

181

(1)

For Claudine Because I Love Her

182

(1)

Ypres: 1915

182

(3)

The Broadcaster's Poem

185

(2)

Eli Mandel

187

(12)

Thief Hanging in Baptist Halls

188

(1)

The Meaning of the I Ching

189

(3)

Houdini

192

(1)

Pictures in an Institution

192

(2)

From the North Saskatchewan

194

(1)

On the 25 Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz: Memorial Services, Toronto, YMHA, Bloor & Spadina, January 25, 1970

195

(4)

Margaret Avison

199

(12)

Snow

200

(1)

The World Still Needs

200

(1)

To Professor X, Year Y

201

(2)

The Swimmer's Moment

203

(1)

Voluptuaries and Others

204

(1)

Pace

205

(1)

Black-White Under Green: May 18, 1965

205

(2)

July Man

207

(1)

In A Season of Unemployment

208

(1)

Oughtiness Ousted

209

(1)

We the Poor Who Are Always With Us

209

(1)

Word: Russets

210

(1)

Gwendolyn MacEwen

211

(13)

Poems in Braille

213

(1)

Manzini: Escape Artist

214

(1)

Poem Improvised Around A First Line

215

(1)

The Red Bird You Wait For

216

(1)

The Discovery

216

(1)

Dark Pines Under Water

217

(1)

Memoirs of a Mad Cook

217

(1)

The Child Dancing

218

(1)

From the T.E. Lawrence Poems

Apologies

219

(1)

Nitroglycerine Tulips

220

(1)

Deraa

220

(2)

Ghazala's Foal

222

(1)

Tall Tales

222

(1)

Notes from the Dead Land

223

(1)

John Newlove

224

(17)

Then, If I Cease Desiring

225

(1)

Crazy Riel

226

(1)

Verigin, Moving In Alone

227

(2)

Ride Off Any Horizon

229

(4)

The Pride

233

(6)

Such Fun, Such Fun

239

(2)

Robin Blaser

241

(14)

From Cups, 4

243

(1)

243

(1)

The Medium

244

(1)

Winter Words

245

(1)

The Finder

246

(1)

Tumble-Weed

247

(1)

The Truth Is Laughter 14

248

(1)

Dreams, April, 1981

248

(1)

graffito

249

(1)

The Iceberg

249

(1)

Home for Boys and Girls

250

(1)

Image-Nation 21 (territory

251

(1)

For Barry Clinton, d.17 June, 1984, of aids

252

(1)

Praise to Them, December 30, 1984

252

(1)

Of the Land of Culture

253

(2)

George Bowering

255

(16)

Grandfather

257

(1)

Dobbin

258

(1)

Summer Solstice

258

(4)

Bones Along Her Body

262

(1)

From Kerrisdale Elegies, One

263

(4)

Death

267

(1)

Musing on Some Poets

268

(2)

Fall 1983, Oliver

270

(1)

Fred Wah

271

(13)

My Horse

273

(1)

The Canoe, Too

273

(1)

From Pictograms from the Interior of B.C.

274

(1)

I'm Going to Keep on Dancing for the Rest of My Life

274

(1)

From Waiting for Saskatchewan

275

(1)

Elite 2

275

(1)

Elite 3

276

(1)

Elite 4

277

(1)

Father/Mother Haibun #4

278

(1)

Father/Mother Haibun #11

278

(1)

Father/Mother Haibun #17

279

(1)

Father/Mother Haibun #19

279

(1)

The Poem Called Syntax

279

(1)

From 'Music at the Heart of Thinking' #89-95

280

(4)

Margaret Atwood

284

(16)

The Animals in That Country

286

(1)

A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum

287

(1)

Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer

288

(3)

Death of a Young Son by Drowning

291

(1)

Game After Supper

292

(1)

They Eat Out

293

(1)

Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written

294

(3)

A Women's Issue

297

(1)

Morning in the Burned House

298

(2)

Patrick Lane

300

(12)

Passing into Storm

302

(1)

The Bird

302

(1)

Elephants

303

(1)

Mountain Oysters

304

(1)

Unborn Things

305

(1)

The Carpenter

306

(1)

Stigmata

307

(1)

Albino Pheasants

308

(1)

Winter 22

309

(1)

Fathers and Sons

309

(1)

The Bathroom

310

(2)

bpNichol

312

(22)

Blues

314

(1)

From `The Captain Poetry Poems'

315

(1)

What is Can Lit?

316

(2)

Allegory #6

318

(1)

Landscape: I

319

(1)

The Mouth

319

(2)

old mothers

321

(1)

for Caspar

322

(1)

St. Anzas VII

322

(5)

Monotones XXVII

327

(1)

sometimes I hear music

328

(1)

You Too, Nicky

328

(6)

Michael Ondaatje

334

(15)

Early Morning, Kingston to Ganonoque

336

(1)

Elizabeth

336

(2)

'The gate in his head'

338

(1)

From The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

338

(3)

Letters & Other Worlds

341

(2)

The Cinnamon Peeler

343

(1)

Escarpment

344

(2)

Last Ink

346

(3)

Pat Lowther

349

(13)

Wanting

351

(1)

Touch Home

351

(1)

Two Babies in Two Years

352

(1)

Coast Range

352

(2)

Octopus

354

(1)

Hotline to the Gulf

355

(3)

Regard to Neruda

358

(1)

The Dig

358

(4)

Daphne Marlatt

362

(14)

Imagine: A Town

364

(1)

A by-channel; a small backwater

365

(2)

Vacant, Lots

367

(1)

listen

368

(2)

feeding the pigeons

370

(2)

Healing

372

(1)

Two women in a birth

372

(1)

booking passage

373

(3)

Gary Geddes

376

(12)

Sandra Lee Scheuer

378

(1)

Letter of the Master of Horse

379

(5)

The Strap

384

(1)

Jimmy's Place

385

(1)

Saskatchewan: 1949

386

(1)

Philip Larkin

387

(1)

Robert Bringhurst

388

(13)

The Beauty of the Weapons

390

(2)

Anecdote of the Squid

392

(1)

The Stonecutter's Horses

393

(5)

These Poems, She Said

398

(1)

Poem Without Voices

399

(1)

For the Bones of Josef Mengele, Disinterred June 1985

399

(2)

Don McKay

401

(12)

The Great Blue Heron

403

(1)

Fridge Nocturne

403

(1)

Adagio for a Fallen Sparrow

403

(2)

Waking at the Mouth of the Willow River

405

(1)

Early Instruments

405

(1)

Stretto

405

(2)

Nocturnal Migrants

407

(2)

Wings of Song

409

(1)

Winter Solstice Moon: An Eclogue

409

(4)

Anne Szumigalski

413

(10)

Victim

414

(1)

Girl with a Basket

415

(1)

Fishhawks

416

(1)

The Lullaby

417

(1)

The Arrangement

418

(1)

Shrapnel

419

(2)

Third Trimester

421

(1)

Halinka

422

(1)

Robert Kroetsch

423

(22)

Poem of Albert Johnson

424

(2)

Meditation on Tom Thomson

426

(1)

Seed Catalogue

427

(18)

Lorna Crozier

445

(13)

A Brief History of the Horse

447

(2)

Inventing the Hawk

449

(1)

Small Resurrections

450

(1)

Joe Lawson's Wife

451

(2)

Packing for the Future: Instructions

453

(1)

Watching My Lover

454

(2)

A Kind of Love

456

(2)

Roo Borson

458

(12)

Talk

460

(1)

Waterfront

461

(1)

Flowers

461

(1)

A Sad Device

462

(1)

Spring

463

(1)

Beauty

464

(1)

Intermittent Rain

465

(1)

City Lights

466

(1)

Summer Cloud

467

(1)

George Bowering

468

(1)

Water Memory

468

(1)

Whuff

469

(1)

Dionne Brand

470

(12)

Hard Against the Soul/I

471

(1)

Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater

472

(1)

No Language is Neutral

473

(9)

Robyn Sarah

482

(10)

Fugue

483

(1)

Maintenance

484

(2)

A Meditation Between Claims

486

(1)

Study in Latex Semi-Gloss

487

(2)

Scratch

489

(1)

Passages

490

(1)

On Closing the Apartment of My Grandparents of Blessed Memory

490

(1)

The Cup Half Empty

491

(1)

Erin Moure

492

(13)

Post-Modern Literature

494

(1)

Divergences

495

(1)

Being Carpenter

496

(2)

Toxicity

498

(1)

Miss Chatelaine

499

(1)

The Cooking

500

(2)

For Mitterand's Life, For My Life, For Yours

502

(1)

Grief

503

(2)

Sharon Thesen

505

(11)

The Landlord's Tiger Lilies

507

(1)

Elegy, the Fertility Specialist

507

(1)

September, Turning, the Long Road Down to Love

508

(1)

Animals

509

(1)

Afternoon With Liver

510

(1)

Valentine

511

(1)

Upon the Fake Mesa

512

(1)

A Really Delicious Meal at Montri's

513

(3)

Patrick Friesen

516

(12)

an audience with the dalai lama or, the old-fashioned pas de deux

518

(2)

From Anna

520

(3)

a woman from jamaica

523

(1)

ellice avenue

524

(2)

what's the story natalya

526

(1)

the man who licked stones

527

(1)

Bronwen Wallace

528

(13)

The Woman in This Poem

530

(2)

A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf

532

(3)

The Heroes You Had As A Girl

535

(1)

Common Magic

536

(2)

Thinking With the Heart

538

(3)

Tim Lilburn

541

(11)

Names of God

543

(1)

Pumpkins

544

(2)

Touching An Elephant in A Dark Room

546

(1)

In the Hills, Watching

547

(1)

Learning a Deeper Courtesy of the Eye

547

(1)

How To Be Here?

548

(2)

Everything is Proportion

550

(2)

Jan Zwicky

552

(12)

High Summer

554

(1)

Your Body

554

(1)

Open Strings

555

(1)

Bill Evans: 'Here's That Rainy Day'

556

(1)

The Geology of Norway

557

(3)

Border Station

560

(1)

Poppies

561

(1)

Passing Sangudo

562

(2)

Anne Carson

564

(36)

The Glass Essay

565

(35)

Louise Bernice Halfe

600

(12)

Wagon Ride

601

(2)

Body Politics

603

(1)

Lizard's Curse

603

(2)

Hamilton's Graveyard

605

(1)

Picking Leftovers

605

(1)

So Sorry

606

(1)

From Blue Marrow

606

(6)

Acknowledgements

612

(6)

Author Title Index

618

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