The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet

by Lynes, Jeanette

• ISBN13: 9781894469159
• ISBN10: 1894469151
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Mansfield Pr

Summary

In The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet, Lynes has crafted a moving portrait of a woman whose humour and chutzpah challenge a world that sees her as a relic of another age. Part nostalgia, part cultural critique with respect to women's experience of aging, Lynes' Cheerleader does handsprings, walkovers, and roundoffs over the very language that seeks to define her.

Table of Contents

The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet
I Epilogue
II Jurassic Skin
AUDITION	19	(1)
ENIGMA IN RED & WHITE	20	(2)
WHAT IS IT YOU DO? 2I
BULLHORN	22	(1)
FACE	23	(1)
STUDY	24	(1)
I AM INVITED TO WOMEN'S STUDIES CLASS	25	(1)
WHAT THE NEIGHBOURS THINK	26	(1)
CALLERS	27	(1)
DATE	28	(1)
MONUMENT PARK	29	(1)
THE POETICS OF CELESTIAL FATIGUE	30	(1)
AMONG THE BOOKS	31	(1)
SCAPE	32	(1)
I IMAGINE HEAVEN	33	(1)
I IMAGINE NORTH	34	(1)
IMAGE	35	(1)
AMONG THE MOUNTIES	36	(1)
REVISION	37	(1)
ADVICE TO ASPIRING SQUAD MEMBERS	38	(1)
IN WHICH I COMPARE MYSELF TO JULIAN OF NORWICH	39	(1)
SPIRIT IN RESIDENCE	40	(1)
TOASTING THE LOWLY, OVERLOOKED COMMA	41	(1)
CASANOVA QUARTERBACK	42	(1)
FINDING MYSELF IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES WITH LITTLE TIME & FEW RESOURCES FOR SAYING GOODBYE	43	(4)
III The Flames
RAZE	47	(1)
ORIGINAL CHANT	48	(1)
PRACTICE FOR AN AFTERLIFE JUST IN CASE)	49	(1)
THE QUAINT RITUAL OF GETTING THE MAIL WORN THIN	50	(1)
HUM	51	(1)
BIRTHDAY	52	(1)
THE SINGLE WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SELFESTEEM & SUCCESS IN ANY SOCIAL SPHERE	53	(1)
COCKTAILS AT BRIMSTONE	54	(1)
EXHIBIT 8A: THE CHEERLEADER AS RELIC	55	(2)
THE LONELY PEP QUEEN'S GUIDE TO MARS	57	(1)
SOOTHSAYER	58	(1)
TELEPHONE AUDITION FOR THE AFTERLIFE	59	(1)
CRIMINALIZATION, IT HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US	60	(1)
MAGIC SWEATER	61	(1)
FRANGIBLE	62	(1)
YET ANOTHER BIRTHDAY	63	(1)
STANDARD TIME	64	(1)
FIDELITY	65	(1)
MUSING ON NAMES WHILE DRIVING DURING AN OFFICIAL STORM, LISTENING TO JOHNNY CASH, THEN JOAN OSBORNE	66	(1)
THE AGING CHEERLEADER AS ARSONIST	67	(1)
THE MORNING NEWS	68	(1)
NOTE DISCOVERED BY NONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF	69	(8)
IV Prologue
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	77	(2)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE	79