Porcupinity of the Stars
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2006
90 pages
978-1-77056-273-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work 'so compelling is Barwins balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder, and the shifting, often perplexing nature of consciousness. His Heisenbergian sensibility honed to a fine edge, the poems in this bright, bold and intensely visual book add a surreptitious intensity and wry maturity to Barwins trademark gifts for subtle humour, solemn delight, compassion, and invention.
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The Porcupinity of the Stars
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10/2006
Coach House Books
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Content
- Intro
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- ONE
- PLANTING CONSENT
- INSIDE H
- FEET
- OPPOSABLE CONSCIOUSNESS
- NAKED STONES THE WHOLE DAY LONG
- SOME OF THE PARTS
- ONE-FACED
- OPTICS, METEOROLOGY AND GEOMETRY
- STAY HERE WARPED HYPOTHESIS
- THEORY OF FALLACIES
- HISTORY NOTEBOOK
- EVERTHELESS
- PSALM
- FISH
- THE ORIGINAL MIDDLE
- O
- TWO
- GLACIER
- REGRET
- FOURTEEN BEAUTIFUL DOGS
- INVERTING THE DEER
- RELIEVING
- A ROOF FLOOREDA
- HEINRICH MANOEUVRES
- INBOGGANING
- FIDO
- ON LISTENING TO COLEMAN HAWKINS
- SHOPPING FOR DEER
- THE PROBLEM OF BREATH IN OUR AGE
- GRIEF
- ARCHIVIST OF THE FUTURE
- PROVERBS 1:20
- SMALL APES AND WHITE FEET
- FURNACE COAT
- GUN LIPS
- THREE
- WHATEVER-IT-WAS
- BRICK
- FOURTH PERSON
- FIRST PERSON
- SECOND PERSON
- THIRD PERSON
- FOURTH PERSON
- WE ARE FAMILY
- THE LOOKOUT MAN
- AUBADE
- THE WINDPIPE OF SLEEP
- AFTER BINYON
- HORSE
- REALISM
- THREE TREATISES
- SONG
- TWO SONGS
- POEM
- FROST
- AUTUMN IN THE TOOLBOX
- SHOUT
- SUNDAYS AT THE MUSEUM
- THE SKY IS NO REASON
- SONG
- HOSE
- COMEDY
- MY GRANDFATHER
- SMALL SUPPER
- THE PORCUPINITY OF THE STARS
- ALPHABET
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
