Whiteout

Poems

,

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781770410879
• eBook ISBN: 9781770902350
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Whiteout: n. a surface condition... in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible... Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised image, shrinking to a pinprick. Whiteout: calques and towers, twin polar storms, falling, burning. Whiteout: a book of white nothing. George Murrays sixth collection has been a decade in the making. At once taut, tender and terrifying, haunted and haunting, Whiteout shatters convention in the collision of order and rage, formlessness and hard-won serenity.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Copyright
• Dante's Shepherd
• The New Weather
• The Uncountable
• Hundredth Monkey Effect
• New York
• Brushfires
• A Race Around the Sun
• Saint Teresa of Avila
• Fuse
• Cowboy Story
• The Accident
• The Snails
• Song for Memory
• Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb
• St. John's
• Pareidolia
• Emergency Broadcast System
• Owed
• Ligature (fi)
• Child's Play
• All These Waves
• Blazon for the Crone
• Belfast
• The Waiting Room
• Song for a Divorce Budget
• The World Goes Out Like an Old Television
• The Address Book
• The Definition of Zero
• Frame-Drag
• Calques from Imaginary Languages
• The Ants
• Esau and I
• Training Day
• Innocent Bystanders
• Toronto
• Icarus in the Wax Museum
• Rose
• Ligature (&)
• State of Emergency
• Whiteout
• Cantus Firmus (Spring Mountain)
• Notes
• Back Cover