Drift
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Drift

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About This Book

What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor?

Rambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered imagination. In fluid, sparkling cadences, Kevin Connolly's poems let the mind's downtime have the stage for a change -- the desert sky transformed; Spring Break as viewed by passing skipjacks; narratives of danger and dream narrative; a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber; figures of history disfigured and left to wander the consumer grid -- such are the entirely odd, entirely current events in Connolly's world, a realm that stands at an acute angle from the place we normally live in but which we all seem to drift into. As one of Connolly's own high-voltage sonnets states, what stops the heart starts the world.

In drift 's constant juxtaposition of abundance and loneliness, we hear what it is to confront a new century, having quite likely failed during the last. We're reminded, by a voice unlike any other on the Canadian landscape, that our solitude is painful yet precious.

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Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780887849367
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Openers
  2. About a Poem
  3. Addition
  4. And . . . Scene
  5. Architect
  6. Awards Gala
  7. Calmnesses
  8. The Cardigan of Jeanne d’Arc
  9. The Cartographer’s Lament
  10. Chain:
  11. Contractual Obligation
  12. Death by Scansion
  13. Deep Thoughts and Important Feelings
  14. Deposition
  15. Domestic Lyric
  16. Down to Earth
  17. Drift
  18. Eels
  19. Errata
  20. Familial
  21. Finger Lake
  22. Forgery
  23. Get Well Soon
  24. The Gradualists
  25. Half of Something
  26. Hard About
  27. Harmless Rituals
  28. History Channel
  29. Hooks
  30. In Limbo,
  31. Inside George Steiner
  32. Lapse
  33. Lawn Jockey
  34. The Moon in the Breast of Man Is Cold
  35. More Extreme Bloopers of the Midsummer Fireflies
  36. Motive
  37. No Trekkie
  38. One-Act
  39. Open All Night
  40. Or Was It My Credenza?
  41. Paleface
  42. Phenomenology
  43. Poem Composed on Ten Lines by John Reed
  44. Range Life
  45. Repossession
  46. Rise and Shine
  47. Roommate
  48. Rummage
  49. Rumsfeld Sonata
  50. Scientific
  51. Sestina
  52. S.E.T.I.
  53. Settlements
  54. Sleeping at the Office
  55. So Familiar
  56. Space Sonnet
  57. Spell G.O.D.
  58. Still Life with Pigeon
  59. Swallowing
  60. Swallows
  61. Ten Cents a Dance
  62. Tennis, Elba
  63. This Just In
  64. Thundering Absence
  65. Virginia Beach
  66. Woman . . . Careening
  67. Write What You Know
  68. Notes
  69. Acknowledgements
  70. About the Publisher