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Shameless
About this book
Shortlisted for the 2003 Pat Lowther Award and the 2003 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry
In Marlene Cookshaw's work time is slowed so that you can walk around in the moment, rub your knuckles on its nap, trace its lattice-work of airs and pressures, and touch the sensitive places left by accidents and old loves. Life seems to come forward to meet speech, even as speech is reaching to its edge. You breathe the salt tang of the particular.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Pag e
- Dedication
- Contents
- “The tiny silver luck of minnows”
- Genesis Again
- Davis Road
- Kouros
- Room 418
- Outdoor Baptism
- One Wave
- Elbow on Knee
- Planetesimal
- Bruise
- The Thumbprint of the Picker
- Letter to a Husband Who’s Moved Out
- Chatelaine
- Nice Girls
- When the Light Changed
- The Field
- Figure and Ground
- Niagara
- Wind Like Prairie Wind
- Clear to me now
- The Mysteries
- Heart Trail
- The Same Words Over and Over
- Beet
- Migration
- What the Brain Tells the Body When He Enters the Room
- In the Spring of No Letters
- Breath of the Others
- How to Be Happy
- Beside Ourselves
- Strawberry Fields
- Mid-March, Pender Island
- The Fever Breaks
- Hunting
- Perfect Seam
- Notes on the poems
- Acknowledgements
- Biography
