Marrying the Sea
Selected Poems
Published on 15. April 1998
128 pages
978-1-77131-213-4 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award
Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit, patriarchal, filial, professional, and shot-gun. On the love of men and women, and of women for women: as friends, as mothers, as daughters, as uncertain selves; intimate communion with women living, with their imagined pasts, and with the dead.
Acclaimed author of Rest Harrow and The Green Library, Janice Kulyk Keefer brings her passionate intelligencs to bear on the beauties and perplexities of these most perennial of human obsessions. The poems are notable for their alert, musical line as much as for their range and sophistication.
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Janice Kulyk Keefer is the auther of several works of fiction, poetry and literary criticism. Her recent novel, The Green Library, was short-listed for the Governor General's Award. She lives in Toronto, and teaches at the University of Guelph, in Ontario.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Sacra Conversazione
- Sacra Conversazione
- Alone In the Night
- Oranges
- Goat Stories
- Travelling Alone
- Kyiv, 1993
- Stones
- Along the Lake
- Dovedale
- Cedars
- Horses
- Anaesthesia
- Wind Voller Weltraum
- II. Sirens' Songs
- Sirens' Song
- Eurydice
- Mary Magdalene
- Say It With Flowers
- My Name is Red, and I Can Tell You a Thing or Two About Wolves
- Plat Garni
- Degas' Women On the Terrace of a Cafe, At Night
- Klizabeth Smart, 70
- Katherine Mansfield to Middleton Murry
- Isle of Demons
- Shipbound
- The Young Lieutenant
- Her Serving Woman's Lament
- The Island
- Hunters
- The First Winter
- Burial
- Demons
- Summer
- Names
- The Captain's Report
- Cellbound
- Night Eye
- III. Marrying the Sea
- In Praise of Gravity
- Marrying the Sea
- Sweet Tooth
- No Se Puede Vivir Sin Amar
- Children
- Questions We Are Not Supposed to Ask
- Roses, Roses
- Ithaka
- Gathering Lilies
- Meeting By Water
- Jealous
- Making Strange
- A Book of Hours
- Dig
- Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
- Notes and Acknowledgements
- About the Author
