
Metromorphoses
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Grounded in the local and immediate - from Toronto's rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers - Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.
The collection's poems focus, in roughly chronological order, on the city's inhabitants and the changing relationships between people and place, from the original Indigenous presence, through the immigrants of the nineteenth century and the Depression and war survivors of the twentieth century, to the twenty-first century's setbacks and affirmations. We encounter characters such as Symphony Pete, who whistled classical music while hiking Don Valley trails, Henry "Box" Brown, who escaped from southern slavery in a packing crate, or the exhausted anonymous newsboy a photographer caught fast asleep next to his stack of newspapers on a flight of stone steps. We zoom in like time-lapse photography on the changes that a single site has experienced, from wood-frame cottages to foundry to synagogue to furniture store to parking lot to the new provincial courthouse.
These poems bring the reader closer to the impulses that drove the art of the Mississaugas, the escape from slavery or famine of new settlers, or the social awareness of a Dr Charles Hastings or a Raymond Moriyama. Far from Eliot's "unreal city," Metromorphoses takes us into the heart of the real Toronto, alive and ever-changing.
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- Copyright
- Contents
- I
- Shall We Gather at the River?
- Don River Lingo
- Unknown Earth
- Patterns in Our Clay
- Shards and Ashes
- The Don River's Dance at Skinner's Mill
- The Making of a Naturalist
- Species Song
- II
- Moss Park, the Hon. William Allan House
- Boxed
- Shoes
- The Evidence of Things Not Seen
- Music at the Mechanics' Institute
- Working from Home
- III
- Their Venice
- Toronto Verandahs
- God's House on Earth
- Pipe Organ, St George the Martyr
- Clams
- The Jug
- The Battles of Hastings
- IV
- The Jungle
- He Sleeps
- The Making of a Clown
- Alice's Door
- Heaven on Elizabeth Street
- V
- At the Red Lion
- Metromorphoses
- Streetcar Metamorphoses
- Wish You Were Here
- Out of Earshot
- The Swimming Hole
- VI
- Everything That Lives Is Holey
- Evolution at the Brick Works
- Our Neighbour
- Tricks on the Humber (Hurricane Hazel)
- Gone
- Memorial Quilt, York Mills Subway Station
- Local Ghosts
- VII
- The Making of an Architect
- Revell's City Hall
- Metro Mountains
- Mysteries of an Urban Mountain
- Realms of Gold
- The Wandering Islands
- Two Boatmen
- VIII
- Timeslide on the Leslie Street Spit
- Second Thoughts on the Leslie Street Spit
- At the River
- Notes and Acknowledgments
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