Possible Landscape
Published on 15. September 1993
64 pages
978-1-926829-57-9 (ISBN)
Description
Maureen Harris's first volume of poetry evokes "a possible landscape," where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent's "green quiver," his "sibilant caress," where a snake tires of his lover "wearing/the same skin day-out, day-in." The poems in the first section of this book are sharp new takes on old stories, at once angry, witty and thoughtful. With grace, compassion and sparkle, the rest of the book explores the self in the world of the late twentieth century, the seeming contradictions of the third world, and the ordinary magic of an evening spent with friends.
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Maureen Harris is a librarian at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Event and CV2.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- At the Edge of Winter
- A Narrow Room
- Invocation
- That Strange Sense of Falling
- Eve Again
- The Garden
- Let Me
- Snick Snick
- Snake in the Grass
- The Mother of Us All
- Some Snakes Travel in Pairs
- Personals
- A Narrow Room
- The Frog Prince Revisited
- Brooch
- The Wicked Queen's Story
- Persephone's Dream
- Alice
- Hermes
- Where Things Come Together
- Where Things Come Together
- Crossing the Bar
- The Way I Wish It Was
- Occasional Letters
- Travel Journal
- As If I Didnt Live Here Anymore
- Desire
- Cutting Cards
- Emblem
- Self-Portrait: My Extraverted Life Spreads Out in Front of Me
- An Unnaming: the Ottawa
- The Private Lives of Transit Drivers
- The Herdsman's Children
- The Woman at the Bottom of the Well
- What Is Lost Now
- Winter Dark, Wind Rattling the House
- Spring
- Travelling by Eye
- An Answer
