Teethmarks

by Queyras, Sina

• ISBN13: 9780889711938
• ISBN10: 0889711933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-10
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions

Summary

Teethmarks offers a cutting examination of contemporary society, from the personal to the global. The "fuzzy" simplicity of childhood at the book's outset is deftly shadowed by details of cigarette butts in the girl's room, the scent of burning leaves and teeth marks on Barbie dolls (From the dog, Terry assures her, when he was a puppy.) From there on in, Queyras embarks on a dynamic exploration of form in poems sharply aware of shifting boundaries, groundlessness, the seedy pastoral of childhood and the difficulty of maintaining community and family in our increasingly fragmented lives. Teeth Marks merges lives constructed by B-movies and the daily news, transposing their black-and-white "realities" with palettes of vital colour.

Author Biography

Sina Queyras' first book of poetry, Slip, was published by ECW Press in 2001. She has been a finalist in the CBC National Literary Competition several times for both poetry and fiction. Her poetry has been published widely in anthologies and journals in Canada and the US. Sina grew up in Winnipeg, Vancouver Island and Terrace, BC, was educated at the University of Victoria, UBC and Concordia, where she received her M.A. in creative writing. She currently lives in Brooklyn, teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and spends her summers in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Jersey Fragments
Three Songs for Jersey	11	(3)
After He's Gone	14	(1)
You Turn My Head	15	(1)
Struck Matches	16	(1)
Driving to Brooklyn, Spring	17	(1)
The Deer of New Jersey	18	(2)
Ashes	20	(1)
What Books Our Lives Have Become	21	(1)
Me Victorious	22	(2)
Waiting for Owl	24	(1)
The Blessing	25	(4)
Dizzy, or, My Mother's Life as Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #35	29	(1)
Untitled Film Still #11	30	(2)
TV M/other	32	(2)
Song for the Open Road #1	34	(1)
Car Interior #1	35	(1)
Late Night Movies	36	(2)
Untitled Film Still #5	38	(2)
Car Interior #2	40	(1)
Roadside Memory #1	41	(3)
Untitled Film Still #65	44	(1)
Why She Stays	45	(1)
Sonata Between 1 and 3	46	(4)
The Stalker	50	(1)
The Round-Up Cafe	51	(1)
Good Woman Moment	52	(1)
Untitled Film Still #50	53	(1)
Ways of Seeing	54	(2)
Snapshot of My Mother in Nature	56	(1)
Roadside Memory #2	57	(3)
Untitled Film Still #54	60	(2)
Untitled Film Still #7	62	(7)
Eight Small Stones
Night Flannel	69	(1)
Night Road	70	(1)
Motel Summer	71	(1)
Learning to Wink	72	(1)
Walking on Fire	73	(1)
Bear Hunting	74	(2)
Teethmarks	76	(1)
The Latin Mystery	77	(4)
Bridging & Tunnelling
Surface	81	(1)
The Death of the Moth	82	(2)
Voyageur	84	(2)
Pentecostal Figures	86	(1)
Houses	87	(1)
Forty Fast Approaching	88	(1)
Tonight the Sky Is My Begging Bowl	89	(1)
Spangled	90	(1)
Dear Ferron	91	(1)
Signs	92	(1)
Eros, or Error	93