How I Get Ready
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How I Get Ready

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How I Get Ready

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In her new poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book.

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Year
2020
ISBN
9781776563258
Edition
1
Subtopic
Poetry
CONTENTS
The Spring
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Turn Out to Be Something
Ghost Bear
The Declining Number of Longfin Eels
Cast the Porpoise Out
Contributor Note (i)
The Feeling of Action
Everything
Reception
Driving
Contributor Note (ii)
Sasha
Guide
Contributor Note (iii)
Action Lines
Triolet with Baby
ooooooooo
If So How
Feedback
Dandelions
Words of Praise
Treasure
Contributor Note (iv)
Turkeys
Theo
Your Horse
Process
Things to Do (2011)
Things to Do (2015)
Lifted
ooooooooo
Contents
Discontinuation
The Unspeakable Love
Fancy
ā€˜Sonnetā€™
A Real Piece of Work
Bats Redux
Contributor note (v)
Hero Vegetable
Editors on the Storm
Lunch Poem
Control
This Time
How I Get Ready
NOTES
The Spring
One day last week while going to work
I saw a horse lying on the street
and people were trying to help it up.
It came to my mind that I must know
how and when they were going to get that horse up.
I saw that it was hard for them
to get the horse up and I wished they would get it up quick
as I was in a hurry to go to work.
Some people that I know came and greeted me
but I did not pay attention to their greetings
because I had the horse on my mind.
Whenever a wagon comes by
I start to run after the wagon until I can
make sure of the colour
of the horses.
I must know.
I test my heartā€”take out my watch
I think the cause of heart failure
is if I did any-
thing like running hard, if I ran too much;
sometimes I canā€™t do anything
without anything in my hand;
whenever I
sit idle I donā€™t know why but I do it
I take this pencil and hold it in my hand
write somethi...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Spring
  6. Turn Out to Be Something
  7. Ghost Bear
  8. The Declining Number of Longfin Eels
  9. Cast the Porpoise Out
  10. Contributor Note (i)
  11. The Feeling of Action
  12. Everything
  13. Reception
  14. Driving
  15. Contributor Note (ii)
  16. Sasha
  17. Guide
  18. Contributor Note (iii)
  19. Action Lines
  20. Triolet with Baby
  21. If So How
  22. Feedback
  23. Dandelions
  24. Words of Praise
  25. Treasure
  26. Contributor Note (iv)
  27. Turkeys
  28. Theo
  29. Your Horse
  30. Process
  31. Things to Do (2011)
  32. Things to Do (2015)
  33. Lifted
  34. Contents
  35. Discontinuation
  36. The Unspeakable Love
  37. Fancy
  38. ā€˜Sonnetā€™
  39. A Real Piece of Work
  40. Bats Redux
  41. Contributor note (v)
  42. Hero Vegetable
  43. Editors on the Storm
  44. Lunch Poem
  45. Control
  46. This Time
  47. How I Get Ready
  48. NOTES