Overview

“My writing is a search for meaning, beauty, love, an integration of my lost parts.” From the widely praised writer comes her fourth collection of startlingly original poetry. With a singular range that inspires, this collection energizes her earlier lyrical narrative with the sass and verve of spoken word, and the slap of slam.

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Author:   Beth Goobie
Publisher:   Exile Editions
Imprint:   Exile Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.186kg
ISBN:  

9781550969771

ISBN 10:   1550969773
Pages:   123
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

At the Mic The Civilization Inside My Head 1 The Girl with the Origami Soul 3 The small Big 5 How to Make an Angel Giggle 6 The Piano at the Centre of the Universe 8 The Reader 10 In Praise of the Gloomy Day 12 Why I Love the Accordion 13 Conversations 15 If I Were an Astronaut's Love Child 16 Painting Mrs. Demerais 17 The Story Underneath 20 Death Is a Pear 22 Waiting 25 The Great House 26 If I Made the World 28 Civilization lives in the throat 30 Evening Street Festival 31 The Book of Breathings 32 Hypnagogia 34 Ode to the Mind 35 The Prophesy 37 Keepers of the Flame 39 Sucked So Dry 41 You're Angry 43 The Cerebral Cathedral 45 Let Come 46 Teenage Girls 47 Persephone Omen 49 The Holy Places of the Earth 50 Love and Bone 51 You Kill My Joy 52 The Crazery of Slavery 53 From the Chorus Line at the Private Men's Club 55 I'm a Conspiracy Theory, Google Me @ Ordinary Soul 56 Story of the Atom 58 Petal 60 This Hello Says Goodbye 61 I Poem You 63 To Pull the Sword from the Stone 65 Swearing Saved My Life 66 Daughter of the A Minor Scale 68 Nightlight 69 Wannabe Witch 71 Old Men 73 God Under the Thumb 75 Old Friends 76 The Bitch I Wear 78 The Dangerous Time 80 Spinster Power 82 Farewell to the Tin Cans 84 The Next Big Thing 86 To Those Who Edit the Exclamation Marks Out of Happiness! 88 The Big Ballyrama 89 If You Are a Poem 90 My Old Shirt 92 The Messiah, the Jets' Hockey Arena, 1979 94 Respect Where It's Due 96 Astonished on 8th Street 99 The Wild of You 100 Conversations with Death 101 You Are Story 103 Poet Enough 104Dissection 106 Lookin' for Joy 108 When No One's Listening 109 Acknowledgements 111 The Slammer's Delight 113 Beth Goobie's Bibliography 114

Reviews

I know of no writer in Canada capable of crafting subtle imagery and delicate phrasing to compare with that found in Goobie's arresting poetry... Goobie's work is...starkly, almost self-consciously, original, strewn here and there with the telling detritus (much of it human) of modern popular culture. --The Globe and Mail

Author Information

Beth Goobie's first collection of poetry, Scars of Light, won the 1994 Pat Lowther Award. She is the author of 26 books, including Before Wings (CLA Award, Saskatchewan YA Book Award), The Lottery, The Pain Eater (Snow Willow Award, Saskatchewan YA Book Award), and The First Principles of Dreaming. In 2020, she tied for second in Tonight It's Poetry's annual Saskatoon spoken word championship. She won the 2021 $5,000 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award, in the Established Writer category.

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