Alden Nowlan Selected Poems
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

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The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.

Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. Alden Nowlan Selected Poems is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.

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Publisher
A List
Year
2013
ISBN
9781770893764
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Openers
  2. Introduction by Susan Musgrave
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Hens
  6. All Down the Morning
  7. Weakness
  8. In the Hainesville Cemetery
  9. After the First Frost
  10. I Knew the Seasons Ere I Knew the Hours
  11. Pussywillows in March
  12. God Sour the Milk of the Knacking Wench
  13. For Nicholas of All the Russias
  14. Beginning
  15. Aunt Jane
  16. The Belled Deer
  17. The Coat
  18. Father
  19. Baptism
  20. The Fynch Cows
  21. Warren Pryor
  22. Georgie and Fenwick
  23. Christ
  24. Looking for Nancy
  25. St. John River
  26. Party at Bannon Brook
  27. Disguise
  28. The Bull Moose
  29. The Shack Dwellers
  30. Stoney Ridge Dance Hall
  31. The Grove Beyond the Barley
  32. The Execution
  33. The Drunken Poet
  34. Daisies
  35. Canadian Love Song
  36. The Migrant Hand
  37. I, Icarus
  38. Long, Long Ago
  39. And He Wept Aloud, So That the Egyptians Heard It
  40. Daughter of Zion
  41. Britain Street
  42. For Jean Vincent D’Abbadie, Baron St.-Castin
  43. July 15
  44. A Mug’s Game
  45. The Word
  46. Day’s End
  47. The Last Waltz
  48. The Wickedness of Peter Shannon
  49. In the Operating Room
  50. Morning of the Third Operation
  51. The Mysterious Naked Man
  52. Hymn to Dionysus
  53. Country Full of Christmas
  54. Snapshot
  55. The Mosherville Road
  56. A Poem About Miracles
  57. Ypres: 1915
  58. A Black Plastic Button and a Yellow Yoyo
  59. The First Stirring of the Beasts
  60. An Exchange of Gifts
  61. Chance Encounter
  62. Why He Wanted to Abolish Capital Punishment
  63. Mistaken Identity
  64. Fair Warning
  65. The lconotrophic Instant
  66. Canadian January Night
  67. The Married Man’s Poem
  68. He Raids the Refrigerator and Reflects on Parenthood
  69. Johnnie’s Poem
  70. Cornflowers
  71. Written While Waiting for Another Chest X-Ray
  72. For Yukio Mishima
  73. Old Town Revisited
  74. They Go Off to Seek Their Fortunes
  75. For My Grandchildren, as Yet Unborn
  76. He Takes His leave
  77. At a Distance He Observes an Unknown Girl Picking Flowers
  78. The Palomino Stallion
  79. The Social Worker’s Poem
  80. The Old Gentleman
  81. Unfinished Poem
  82. Poem for Barbara and Lindsay’s Wedding
  83. A Pinch or Two of Dust
  84. The Rites of Manhood
  85. The Jelly Bean Man
  86. The Broadcaster’s Poem
  87. The Middle-Aged Man in the Supermarket
  88. Full Circle
  89. The Visitor
  90. On the Barrens
  91. Land and Sea
  92. The Red Wool Shirt
  93. What Colour Is Manitoba?
  94. It’s Good to Be Here
  95. My Beard, Once Lionheart Red
  96. What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread
  97. A Pair of Pruning Shears
  98. The Seasick Sailor, and Others
  99. A Night in 1938, and the Night After
  100. There Is a Horrible Wing to the Hotel
  101. He Visits the Shrine of a Saint
  102. The Secretive Fishermen
  103. Legacy
  104. I’m Simply Walking
  105. He Reflects Upon His Own Stupidity
  106. Great Things Have Happened
  107. How Beautiful Art Thy Feet with Shoes
  108. The Thief
  109. Bobby Sands
  110. He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded
  111. A Song to Be Whispered
  112. You Can’t Get There from Here
  113. Two Visitors from Utah
  114. 1914-1918
  115. Driving a Hard Bargain
  116. Home from the Wars
  117. He Attempts to Love His Neighbours
  118. The Fox
  119. My Father’s Body Was Found by Children
  120. This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With
  121. The All Night Diner
  122. Confession
  123. The Fat Man’s Poem
  124. Contributors
  125. About the Publisher