Refrigerator Memory
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2001
87 pages
978-1-77056-190-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness.With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. Youll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who cant stop crying.But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination, its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners.You wont forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm your heart.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Hating Hungry People
- Hating Hungry People
- Gerald's Wife Tina
- Our Prosthesis
- Love the Clown
- God in Winter
- Butterfly on a Wheel
- Small Words Inside Sleep
- The Photographer
- Lies to Herself
- Sentimental Poem About God
- On Buoyancy
- Lena and Her Father's Yellow Finches
- His Peacock Shadow
- Bears in the City
- Purple Turtleneck
- Home
- The Fire-Eater and His Daughter
- Four Minutes
- The Molested in the Mirror
- Noni, Who Needed to Cry
- The Molested in the Mirror
- Intersection with Strawberries
- Cupboard
- Poem on the Stairs
- Urban Restaurant
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Jason Brown
- Song for a Salty Man Made of Stones
- Can Be Kind
- Lullaby for Martin
- Happiness
- The Fitting Room
- Toronto, City of Sad Faces
- Skin Poem
- Elegy for Atlas
- Trains
- First Husband
- The Foyer of Formal Feeling
- Riding Hood Reads the Suicide Note
- The Conversationalist
- The Foyer of Formal Feeling
- Love for Jennifer
- Rain and Lemon Cookies
- The Refrigerator Memory
- Little Pica
- House for Sale by Owner
- Dirty Rapunzel
- Brussels Sprout
- The Runaway Budgie
- Sunburn
- Snake and Bees
- The Hot-Air Balloon Operator and Her Brother
- Pelican
- Snowstorm
- The Father-Daughter Dance
- Triptych
