Bitter in the Belly
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Bitter in the Belly

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Bitter in the Belly

About this book

The past grabs back / what it lets us handle

Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre.

Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light – what there is of light, when the light is on.

In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom – Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that he's home.

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Information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780228009078
eBook ISBN
9780228010326
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. AT THE TEMPLE
  5. YOUNG MAN AND SAILOR
  6. NEAR NOTHING
  7. FALSE ETYMOLOGY IN A STATUE GARDEN
  8. IDOL
  9. NAY, HE HATH NEED OF NAUGHT! HE IS A WISE MAN!
  10. *
  11. RAISED FAR FROM RIVERS
  12. UNDER HIS WINDOW
  13. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE IN THE AFTERNOON
  14. AQUEDUCT
  15. REVERSE TRANSLATION
  16. CLEAR CUT
  17. THE CLOSED EYES OF THE RAVISHED
  18. THAT THEY MAY UPHOLD HIM HORIZONTALLY
  19. THE ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS
  20. TRICK
  21. ULCER
  22. THE EVENING
  23. ENOUGH HAST THOU SLEPT!
  24. SAINT ANTHONY
  25. BRONZE AGE
  26. STORY
  27. WEED
  28. THE FIERCENESS OF PLEASURE
  29. UNA CHUPACABRITA
  30. THE WHOLE FIRMAMENT THAT TURNED EVEN AS WE TURNED
  31. IN THE ART HOUSE
  32. JOB
  33. POSITIVE
  34. IN THE SHADOW, IN THE HOUSE
  35. TENT
  36. ANGER
  37. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
  38. GESTURES
  39. FIRST SNOW
  40. SPECIALTY FISH
  41. JONAH, MISSIONARY IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
  42. JONAH, DISPLEASED WITH GOD FOR SPARING NINEVEH
  43. AT YOUR DOOR
  44. YOUR ESSAY ON BLACK BOXES
  45. SINGETH LOVEWORDS
  46. FACT
  47. THICK PRONOUN
  48. KAFKAESQUE
  49. HONEY IN THE MOUTH
  50. BOOK OF JONAH
  51. KAFKA ON THE BEACH
  52. YOM KIPPUR
  53. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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