Adult Language Warning
Published on 15. October 1991
83 pages
978-1-77131-156-4 (ISBN)
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At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. His poems bring a new passion to the ancient domestic scene, and to everything else he looks at out of that often-turbulent centre. He ventures with care "into a swelling sea/ of silted meanings" equipped with his own elegant flexible vernacular, shaped precisely to the task of lighting up the trials and wonders of ostensibly ordinary days. These poems ring like crystal-hard edges of a tender heart.
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William Robertson
Adult Language Warning
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09/1991
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At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. He now lives in Saskatoon.
Content
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Our Table
- House-Cleaning
- Mid-Winter
- Conditions Stabilize
- Safety
- Our Table
- This Is a Night for Love
- No Discipline Moan
- Moose Season
- Maps
- Far from Home: Thoughts of Sex
- Gamblers
- My Business
- Relaxing On a Sunday
- Gamblers
- Reception Theory
- Speaking Into Stone
- Shooting the Aurora
- He Was From Ceylon
- Writer's Block
- Cancer
- One of the Laws of Love
- The Red Stain On the Floor
- Placing Night
- Getting the Job Done
- The Man Who Lost a Foot
- Every Father's Dream for His Daughter
- Adult Language Warning
- Ambition
- Waving At the Taillights
- Much to Say
- Winded
- Weasels In My Lawn
- His Other Selves
- Black Ice
- Local Mythologies
- Straightening His Tie
- Prayer
- A Father Who Has Lost a Young Son
- For Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
- River Bed
- The Germ
- Getting the Job Done
- Inside the Rain
- Surprise Leaping Out of the Day
- Notes On the Poems
- About the Author
