Silt

by Verduyn, Christl

• ISBN13: 9781550711530
• ISBN10: 1550711539
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

The poems in Christl Verduyn's first collection reveal telling moments in lives that move between places, times, and identities. They look beyond the everyday to glimpse extraordinary instances of human experience and emotion.

Author Biography

Christl Verduyn is the author of six books of literary criticism, including Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writing, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement	7	(2)
Think of a story . . .	9	(2)
Birth	11	(1)
April Fools	12	(1)
Photographer	13	(1)
Departure	14	(1)
Landing	15	(1)
Waiting	16	(2)
Stationed	18	(1)
Passage	19	(1)
Arrival	20	(1)
Simcoe	21	(2)
Serpent Mounds	23	(1)
Tempered Steel	24	(1)
Cure	25	(1)
The First Fall	26	(1)
Nursery Tales	27	(2)
Brick and Glass Houses	29	(1)
Lost and Found	30	(2)
The Call	32	(2)
Entranced	34	(2)
The Cemetery	36	(2)
Making the Grade	38	(1)
Desire	39	(2)
Naturally	41	(1)
Housework	42	(1)
Mistakes	43	(2)
Flying Dutchman	45	(2)
My Mother in Her Garden	47	(1)
Eye Teeth	48	(1)
Fish Stories	49	(1)
Lush Lawns of June	50	(1)
History	51	(2)
We Gathered Here	53	(1)
Mum's the Word	54	(2)
Experiment	56	(3)
Bone of Contention	59	(1)
Science	60	(1)
All Souls	61	(1)
Dream	62	(1)
Taking Stock	63	(1)
Ghostwriter	64	(1)
Admission	65	(1)
Cold Storage	66	(1)
Sign Language	67	(2)
Undertaker	69	(1)
Dead Sure	70	(1)
Vision	71	(1)
Insight	72	(2)
Clearing	74	(2)
New Growth	76	(1)
Too connected to be mistaken . . .	77