Mobile
About this book
Longlisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Awards
Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee's words, see the "lives we had not lived" that "invisibly stain" the city? What are the sexual politics of occupying space in a city, in a workspace, in history? How can we name our vulnerabilities and our disasters and still find strength?
Written in a slippery mix of lyric and experimental styles, Mobile is MacDonald's grouchiest book yet.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Flâneuserie
- 1. Sybil Elegies
- Elegy 1
- Elegy 2
- Elegy 3
- Elegy 4
- Elegy 5
- Elegy 6
- 2: Jane Walks
- Jane Meets W. B. Yeats
- Lucky Jane, Leaky Object
- Jane Explains the Expanding Universe
- Jane in Taddle Creek Park
- Jane, City Cosmonaut: a rogue cento
- Jane, Rover
- Jane’s Nightingale
- Jane’s Citifesto
- At the Yeats Exhibit in the National Library in Dublin
- The Birth of Jane in CanLit
- Jane’s Weather Forecast
- Jane’s House
- How Jane Met Fern
- Cross-stitch Sampler for the House of Refute
- Pirate Jane and the Don River
- Emma Goldman Meets Jane
- Jane and the Monsters for Beauty, Permanence, and Individuality
- Jane, Truth, and Reconciliation
- Jane, Counting Down
- Fern’s Pronunciation Guide
- Jane in the Chthulucene
- Fern and Jane Discuss the Queen
- Jane’s Call to Action on the Humber Bay Bridge
- Jane Talks with the Bishop of Rome about Recommendation 58
- Fern on Cruelty
- Jane and the Dancers in St. Alban’s Square
- Jane to the Infinite Power
- Jane’s Gathering
- Jane at the Barricades
- The Rapture of Clever Jane
- Jane’s Dance
- Fern’s Friday
- Jane, Gathered
- A Word about Jane from the Furies
- Tremble: a leaving cento
- Words about Jane from Those Who Knew Her
- 3. Bluestockings and Other Disasters
- The Bluestocking’s Opening Lecture
- The Cyborg’s Diary
- No Exit
- Bluestocking Blues
- Loathly Lady
- Mean
- Glory Fabric
- The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings
- The Common Canadian Bluestocking
- From The History of Bluestockings in Upper Canada
- Are You In, Genius?
- Emily Dickinson’s Reply to Billy Collins
- The Love Song of Vivienne Haigh-Wood
- The New Adventures of Sarah Binks, Prairie Bluestocking
- The Justess
- Still Life with Lorine Niedecker
- A Scold Bridles
- Requiem
- Notes on Influences, Allusions, and Intertexts
- Thanks and Acknowledgements
- Colophon
- About the Author
