The New Canon An Anthology of Canadian Poetry

by Starnino, Carmine

• ISBN13: 9781550652086
• ISBN10: 1550652087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Signal Editions

Summary

Collecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.

Author Biography

Carmine Starnino is a poet, essayist, and critic, as well as the author of A Lover's Quarrel and With English Subtitles. He lives in Montreal, QuTbec.

Table of Contents

Introduction	15	(24)
Mark Abley (b. 1955)
A Wooden Alphabet	39	(1)
Down	40	(1)
White on White	41	(1)
Edgewise	41	(1)
Diana Brebner (1956-2001)
From ``Eleven Paintings by Mary Pratt''	42	(2)
The Blue Light of the Neutron Pool	44	(2)
Port	46	(2)
The Pictures of My Heart	48	(4)
Carla Hartsfield (b. 1956)
On Moving to a Different Country	52	(1)
A Night	52	(1)
If Clouds Wore Bouffant Hairdos	53	(2)
Reagor Springs, Texas	55	(1)
Selvages	56	(1)
Anne Simpson (b. 1956)
Light Falls Through You	57	(1)
Seven Paintings by Brueghel	58	(4)
John Barton (b. 1957)
Body Bag	62	(3)
Sky News	65	(3)
Julie Bruck (b. 1957)
The Woman Downstairs Used to Be Beautiful	68	(1)
Timing Your Run	69	(1)
Who We Are Now	70	(1)
Cafeteria	71	(1)
Sex Next Door	72	(1)
Elise Partridge (b. 1958)
Plague	73	(1)
A Valediction	74	(1)
Ruin	75	(1)
Buying the Farm	76	(2)
The Book of Steve	78	(5)
Noah Leznoff (b. 1959)
Sleeping In the Grass	83	(1)
An Odd Invisibility, This	83	(2)
Pushing in the Grocery Line	85	(1)
Blue Jets	86	(2)
Cooperman's Fish: Habitat	88	(1)
Iain Higgins (b. 1959)
65/66	89	(1)
67/68	89	(1)
70/71	90	(1)
72/73	91	(1)
73/74	92	(1)
Laura Lush (b. 1959)
Witness	93	(1)
Choices	93	(1)
Sumo Wrestlers	94	(1)
The Accident	94	(1)
Deciphering the Sea	95	(1)
The Crossing Guard	95	(1)
Susan Gillis (b. 1959)
Backyard Light	96	(1)
Eagle Bridge	97	(1)
Summer Holiday	97	(3)
Sleep Walking	100	(1)
Jeffery Donaldson (b. 1960)
Rented Space	100	(1)
Wind	101	(1)
Bearings	102	(1)
Spending Part of the Winter	103	(1)
Above the River	104	(3)
Bruce Taylor (b. 1960)
Social Studies	107	(2)
What the Magdalen Islands are Like	109	(1)
Doodle	110	(2)
The Slough	112	(2)
Lovely	114	(1)
David Manicom (b. 1960)
The Burning Eaves	115	(1)
September Gale with High Theory	115	(2)
Reading Anglo-Saxon When Spring Comes Early	117	(1)
Anchor Post	118	(2)
Love Alight	120	(1)
George Elliott Clarke (b. 1960)
Look Homeward, Exile	121	(1)
King Bee Blues	122	(1)
Monologue For Selah Bringing Spring to Whylah Falls	123	(1)
Blue Elegies: I. v	124	(1)
Richard Sanger (b. 1960)
Travels With My Aunt	125	(1)
Raccoon	126	(1)
Late in The West	127	(1)
Wish	128	(1)
Madonna of the New World	129	(1)
Walid Bitar (b. 1961)
Sports	130	(1)
Pasha	131	(1)
The Fourth Person	132	(1)
The Island Porcile	133	(1)
Open Sesame	134	(1)
Richard Greene (b. 1961)
Window	135	(1)
At the College	136	(1)
Whaler	137	(1)
Crossing the Straits	138	(1)
Steven Heighton (b. 1961)
Address Book	139	(2)
Constellations	141	(1)
Blackjack	142	(1)
The Machine Gunner	142	(2)
High Jump	144	(1)
Gil Adamson (b. 1961)
Message	145	(1)
The Apprentice	146	(1)
Black Wing	146	(1)
Unpleasant Coincidence	147	(1)
Rest	148	(1)
Eric Miller (b. 1961)
The Question	148	(1)
Song of the Vulgar Starling	149	(2)
September in Uplands Park	151	(1)
History of Petals	152	(1)
David McGimpsey (b.1962)
KoKo	153	(1)
The Trip	154	(5)
Edna Loses The Store	159	(3)
Kevin Connolly (b. 1962)
History Channel	162	(1)
Porcelain Jesus	163	(1)
Down to Earth	163	(1)
Rise and Shine	164	(1)
Repossession	165	(1)
Geoffrey Cook (b. 1963)
Moving In	166	(1)
Lorne, Nova Scotia	166	(2)
Fisherman's Song	168	(1)
The Seals at Green Rock	169	(1)
Watermarks	170	(2)
Mark Sinnett (b. 1963)
Study of Two Figures (Lovers), 1846	172	(1)
On the Impossibility of Seeing You	173	(1)
September One	173	(1)
Coast	174	(2)
Patrick Warner (b. 1963)
Gumshoe	176	(2)
Mormon	178	(2)
The Bacon Company of Ireland	180	(1)
Hike	181	(2)
Watching the Ocean	183	(1)
Tim Bowling (b. 1964)
The Last Sockeye	184	(1)
Love Poem, My Back to the Fraser	185	(1)
Great Blue Heron	186	(1)
Early Autumn: A Still Life	187	(1)
Reading My Son to Sleep	188	(1)
Andrew Steinmetz (b. 1965)
From ``Histories, VI, VII, XII, XV, XVII, XVIII, XXI''	189	(5)
Jargon	194	(1)
Tahiti	195	(1)
Oligodendroglioma	196	(1)
Late	197	(1)
John Degen (b. 1965)
Sibiu	198	(2)
Underground	200	(2)
Neighbours are Dangerous	202	(1)
The Rats Outside Me	203	(1)
Crow	203	(2)
Michael Crummey (b. 1965)
The Late Macbeth	205	(1)
Newfoundland Sealing Disaster	206	(1)
Observatory on Mount Pleasant	207	(1)
A Trip to Labrador among the Esquimaux	207	(1)
Artifacts	208	(1)
Karen Solie (b. 1966)
Cardio Room, Young Women's Christian Association	209	(1)
Sturgeon	210	(1)
Java Shop, Fort MacLeod	210	(1)
Sick	211	(1)
Alert Bay, Labour Day	212	(1)
John MacKenzie (b.1966)
Riding the Route for Nature and Health	213	(1)
Drinking with the Neurosurgeon	214	(2)
Now We Sing Our Descent	216	(1)
Thor, Shanghaied by Yahweh to Tend the World...	217	(1)
Christian Bok (b. 1966)
From ``Geodes''	218	(1)
Birefringence	219	(3)
Todd Swift (b. 1966)
Evening on Putney Avenue	222	(1)
Water, Running	223	(1)
Cinema du Look	224	(1)
The Influence of Anxiety at the Seaside with Tea	224	(1)
Lost at Austelitz	225	(1)
Barbara Nickel (b. 1966)
Marion, 1935: To My Twin Sister	226	(1)
Flight	226	(3)
Change Islands	229	(1)
Three Poems for Violin	230	(2)
David O'Meara (b. 1968)
The War Against Television	232	(1)
Brickwork	233	(1)
Nomad	234	(1)
Letter to Auden	235	(6)
Walking Around	241	(4)
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen (b. 1968)
Inoculation	245	(1)
From ``August: An Anniversary Suite''	246	(5)
Christopher Patton (b. 1969)
Red Maple	251	(2)
The Vine Maple	253	(1)
Doe's Bones	254	(1)
From ``Weed Flower Mind''	255	(2)
Stephanie Bolster (b. 1969)
Seawolf Inside its Own Dorsal Fin	257	(1)
Hedge	258	(1)
On the Steps of the Met	258	(1)
Edge of the River	259	(1)
Chemistry	259	(2)
Adam Sol (b. 1969)
Life, McKenzie	261	(1)
Wishing You Better	262	(1)
Conciliatory Letter to Morgan	263	(1)
Man who Slept Between Blows of a Hammer	264	(1)
Psalm of Scranton	265	(1)
Ken Babstock (b. 1970)
Carrying Someone Else's Infant Past a Cow in a Field near Marmora, Ont.	266	(1)
Finishing	267	(1)
Tractor	268	(1)
The 7-Eleven Formerly Known as Rx	269	(2)
Palindromic	271	(3)
George Murray (b. 1971)
Cage	274	(1)
Pike	275	(2)
The Last of the Sinners Waits on a Rock for Noah	277	(2)
Despite the Hunger and Delicious Taste	279	(1)
An Egyptian Soldier on the Red Sea Swims Away from Moses	280	(2)
Anita Lahey (b. 1972)
From ``Cape Breton Relative''	282	(3)
The Drip-dry Method	285	(1)
Travel Photos	286	(2)
Suzanne Buffam (b. 1972)
The Starfish	288	(1)
Life with Folded Umbrella	289	(1)
Sweet Basil	290	(1)
The Onset	291	(1)
Sue Sinclair (b. 1972)
Saturday Afternoon	292	(1)
Red Pepper	293	(1)
Green Pepper	294	(1)
Collar Bones	294	(1)
The Pitcher	295	(1)
Pino Coluccio (b. 1973)
Dimensions	296	(1)
Time Piece	297	(1)
My Imaginary Wife	298	(1)
Getting In	298	(1)
Standards	299	(1)
Asa Boxer (b. 1973)
From ``The Workshop''	299	(3)
How to Lie	302	(1)
The Lobster	303	(1)
Matt Robinson (b. 1974)
Parking Lot Pastoral	304	(1)
From the Ocean, Inland	305	(1)
Spring	306	(1)
Notes Toward an Apartment Story	306	(2)
Michael deBeyer (b. 1975)
Beginning the Season	308	(1)
Saturday Ventures	308	(1)
Imagining the Black Bear into the Parking Lot	309	(1)
The Body October	309	(1)
Home: The West Wall	310	(1)
Joe Denham (b. 1975)
Breakfast	311	(1)
Scotchman Salvage	311	(1)
Gutting	312	(1)
Mending	312	(1)
Splicing	313	(1)
Shane Neilson (b. 1975)
Love in Practice	314	(1)
Open Head Injury	314	(1)
In the MRI Machine	315	(1)
Bedside Delirium: Family Visit	316	(3)
Permissions	319	(6)
Author Index	325