Maunder
Published on 1. April 2017
72 pages
978-1-926794-45-7 (ISBN)
Description
Maundering is a both a physical and verbal process. One can walk in a maundering, aimless fashion and one can verbosely maunder on. Claire Kelly's debut collection, Maunder, contains poems about the physical act of walking and the mental act, what is seen and what is reflected on. These poems allow the reader to do their own idle walk across the page, stepping from image to image, place to place, striding, pivoting in different, unexpected directions.
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Claire Kelly's work has been published in various literary journals, including The Malahat Review, Exile Quarterly, Event, and Prism International. Her chapbook, Ur-Moth, was published in 2016 by Frog Hollow Press. Maunder is her first full-length collection. She lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Your First Love, a Vacant Siding
- The Observer Effect
- Keeping Track, Keeping Pace
- Four Seasons on the Bus: Spring
- Apollo in a Sulky
- Honing in the Too-early Morning
- As if you steeped and drank these streets
- Reading Alden Nowlan's "Hens" at the Laundromat
- Stumped by a Squat Frame
- Two Days, Years Apart, Cézanne Caught a Storm
- You Arrive by Water
- Street Haunting
- First Hot Day
- Four Seasons on the Bus: Summer
- Peony
- Vultures over Cottage Country
- How to Survive a Bear Attack
- Gathering in the Parking Lot
- We met midway up the hill
- Crows-fire-eaters
- The Human Gyroscope: A Study of Momentum
- Sole-worn Glass
- curb' N.-
- Poem for a Busy Lover
- Four Seasons on the Bus: Fall
- Before the Dream in which She is Followed Begins
- As an October caterpillar is late,
- I Dreamt I Could Fly
- I Awoke Encased in Lead.
- Shield Lichen
- This Hefty Wadding
- Similes from Pure Sleep
- What Rises to the Top
- A Foley Artist's Wet Dream
- Four Seasons on the Bus: Winter
- December Scene
- Reading Erin Mouré Midflight or How Capitalism Ends
- News-scroll for Dream Junkies
- Wilde Paints the Parlour White
- In the Torso of a Great Windstorm
- How to Live in the Belly of a Blue Whale
- Two Ways to Stay Dry
- An Aerie, All Winter
- Maunderings
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
