There Are Not Enough Sad Songs
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There Are Not Enough Sad Songs

  1. 72 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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There Are Not Enough Sad Songs

About this book

There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. — from "Inheritance" Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant. In the tradition of Karen Solie and Suzanne Buffam, and with a touch of Canadian Gothic, Dachsel's poetic skills unfold in a variety of brief and expansive forms. Authentic and controlled, full of complexity and disorder, her poems offer release despite their painful twists and topics. Readers across generations will find kinship in Dachsel's grief-fuelled and vulnerable words.

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Information

Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781772124521
eBook ISBN
9781772124620
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. after the funeral
  8. spring
  9. sizzle
  10. illusion
  11. vermin
  12. inheritance
  13. our home needs to be painted
  14. self portrait
  15. alberta avenue
  16. the impossibility of fireflies
  17. klondike
  18. may is an uneasy month
  19. returning from seeing the man with the beard of bees
  20. our guilt stays with us
  21. good to keep busy
  22. neighbourly
  23. he always gave us the creeps
  24. my money’s on the magpie
  25. my mum’s grandmother had a terrible accident when she was a young mother
  26. grown up
  27. main & broadway
  28. hold on
  29. your light, your light
  30. a sonnet for middle-age mothers
  31. solstice
  32. gentle infestation
  33. mothering
  34. cavity
  35. clover point
  36. beached
  37. epithalamium
  38. check for spots
  39. yes, let’s
  40. the forties
  41. unfasten
  42. these days, those days
  43. accumulate
  44. now is the season of open windows
  45. shuswap july
  46. vanish
  47. plato island
  48. always with the fucking fish
  49. we both wore red lipstick
  50. obligatory road trip
  51. swing therapy
  52. before serious
  53. even bleach can’t remove the smell
  54. for phillis wheatley
  55. the birth of father yod
  56. roots
  57. keepsake
  58. last suppers
  59. arbutus
  60. there are not enough sad songs
  61. down under
  62. terminal
  63. new year’s day, 2015
  64. child
  65. Acknowledgements
  66. About the Author
  67. Other Titles from University of Alberta Press