The Essential P. K. PageThis is the second volume in our `Essential Poets' series. Our aim is to provide the best possible introduction to a prominent Canadian poet by selecting key works that carry the essence of an individual poetic voice and sensibility. By offering a small but carefully considered selection it is hoped these chapbooks will invite an intimate acquaintance and ongoing engagement with the poems. Selected by Arlene Lampert and Th?a Gray, the collection is admittedly wildly idiosyncratic and certain to be controversial. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, these poems do not reflect a `young' or a `mature' voice; for Page, time is not linear and change does not occur along a narrow path. Think of this volume as a sort of pocket P. K. Page making its way into backpacks, carry-on luggage, doctors' waiting rooms ... |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Address at Simon Fraser excerpt | 9 |
ΙΟ After Rain | 10 |
After Reading Albino Pheasants by Patrick Lane | 12 |
Ah by the Golden Lilies | 14 |
Ancestors from Melanies NiteBook | 16 |
And about Death | 17 |
Another Space | 18 |
ЗІ Funeral Mass | 31 |
A Grave Illness | 32 |
Hand Luggage excerpts | 33 |
The Hidden Room | 34 |
Hughes | 35 |
Inebriate | 36 |
Intraocular Lens Model 103G | 37 |
Leather Jacket | 38 |
Arras | 20 |
As on a Dark Charger | 22 |
A Backwards Journey | 23 |
Beside | 24 |
Custodian | 25 |
DeafMute in the Pear Tree | 26 |
Dwelling Place 28 Ecology | 28 |
Evening Dance of the Grey Flies | 29 |
The Filled | 30 |
Like a Cruise Ship | 39 |
Brazil | 40 |
Man with One Small Hand | 42 |
The Mole 43 Motel Pool | 43 |
The New Bicycle | 44 |
On Educating the Natives 45 Picking Daffodils | 45 |
Poem Canzonic with love to | 46 |