Anonymity Suite
Published on 5. August 2014
104 pages
978-1-55199-660-8 (ISBN)
Description
Anonymity Suite reaffirms David McFadden's reputation as one of the more interesting and completely enjoyable voices in Canadian poetry. Like a Pre-Raphaelite painter, he is able to join various objects, experiences, voices, and moods in a single canvas. A poem may begin with someone studying Italian on the shore of Lake Como, or drinking kava with firewalkers in the South Seas, and end up with Kelly Gruber and the notorious Skydome heckler. Formally, this is very much a suite of poems, using images from nature, history, and culture to unite thematic strands dealing with sentimentality and anonymity, joy and grief, personality and universality, and a wealth of philosophical and ethical concerns.
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David W. McFadden has published over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Gypsy Guitar, nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1987 and The Art of Darkness, nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1984. He lives in Toronto.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Disclaimer Page
- Contents
- Anonymity Suite
- Moonkat
- Pictograms by Starlight
- Number
- Suva Market
- Susan's Dream
- I'll Cry If I Want To
- Strange Language
- Silence
- A Sentimental Ambiguity or Two
- Magnolia Blossom
- Ambitious Friends
- Never Leave Me
- Spirit Bay
- Dunce Macabre
- News from around the World
- My Friends Are Dying
- Bonnie's Mother
- Iceberg
- Old Man Out for a Midnight Stroll
- Lord Vishnu
- The New Chappy
- A Father Flirts with His Daughter
- Birdwatching in Italy with Kelly Gruber
- Wild Face Tattoos
- Some Other Spring
- Midnight Shadows
- Rondo Mandalay
- A World of Mozarts
- Dialling the Dead
- Sliding into the Sun
- Halloween 1990
- My Mother in History
- Still Life with Fruit
- People's Poet
- Yaqona Blues
- Sad Old Notebooks
- Exciting Times at Nandi Airport
- Gold
- Advice to a Morning in June
- Extinctions
- Lady Lazarus
- Gasoline
- Baseball Loneliness
- Taveeta and Sai
- Predictable People
- On the Way to Spirit Bay
- Holiday in Italy
- Parenthood
- Kalamazoo: The Big Picture
- Proper Studies
- Stability
- Cordelia and Poor Tom
- The Death of Mozart
- Last Call at Hernando's
- Quartz Flakes
- Lunar Review
- Sweet Shipwreck
- The Story of Mike
- How to Impress a Lady
- Thin Gypsy Woman
- Little Song of Freedom
- The Man Who Wished He'd Never Been Born
- My Sweetest Lesbia
- When I Am Dead
- A Warning to All Young Maids
- The Tomb of Bilitis
- The Iguana Within
- The End of Me
- Notes
