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About this book
"Christie's audacious writing pulses with life and, yes, movement." — Globe and Mail
In Evie Christie's third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the space and time they have been given. As surreal as they are domestic, Christie's poems navigate the world they are in, struggle with history, the immediate, and what Richard Polt's investigation of Heidegger would describe as "the emergency being."
Bog Girl
After Seamus Heaney
I waited too long, was left waiting
and here I am in my fruit-white youth,
too young to go untouched, a balmy small-town dream
touched up with pink where it mattered.
Remember the ways you wanted to touch and did not
and finally broke in through the window and did
until I got smart and found their sophistication: loveless bliss,
made over and over 'til the earth packed under my nails
was gone. Find me here, waiting, gone blue and winter cold,
make out my parts from the windowsill,
not gleaming, all the same, the same as ever.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Species That Went Extinct Last Year and Some Who Just Died
- When Your Baby Dies (Steps for New Parents)
- Captains of Industry
- For Girls Who Sleep with Old Men Who Sleep with Ghosts (A Manual)
- Bog Girl
- Birthright
- Vincent Gallo, Tom Thomson Where Are You
- Keep Dying
- Liquidators
- Prepping for the Apocalypse
- Boundary
- Ranch Style
- Straw Dog
- The Dinner Guest
- Breastfeeding Your Third-Born Through the Sixth Extinction While Your Boyfriend Attends Trial
- Cosmopolitan Distribution
- Good
- Handful
- The Common Heart Attack
- Pastoral Tourism
- St. Michael’s
- Homecoming
- Common Law
- Lorazepam Fact Sheet
- Shared Accommodations
- Our Mothers
- What Love
- Life Choices
- Plan Ahead
- Learning to Drive
- For Moses or Almost Anyone
- Rationing Fruit
- Single Mothers in Mid-Late 2000s Parkette
- High and Low
- Women Sleeping with Men
- The Late 2000s
- Advice from Homesteaders Online: Prepping for the Event
- Mere Extinction
- Meat Eaters
- Shechita
- Pilgrimage
- Losing Avraham
- Shroud
- Nightingale Song
- Where the Otonabee Meets Rice Lake
- New Zealand Doomsday Bunker
- Becoming Mike Tyson
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright