But for Now
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But for Now

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But for Now

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From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do, " as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is more to it than the merely mortal and where it is possible to hear beyond the outmoded clanking of inherited religious vocabularies. These poems find moments of grace in chance occurrences and through a wide range of styles and methods, they choreograph the random casual events of our existence. Northrop Frye famously asked, "Where is here?" These poems instead ask, "When is now?" Engaged with worlds of waiting and of doing, with enduring and healing, But for Now celebrates music and noise, speech and silence, and asserts that for all the darkness at the edges, there is something shining at the centre of the painting.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780773590083
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. THE HUGH MACLENNAN POETRY SERIES
  4. Copyright
  5. UNTIL THEN
  6. DREAM GRAVITY
  7. OF INTEREST
  8. THE RIVERS OF GOD ARE FULL OF WATER
  9. WHAT I HAVE, WHAT I AM, WHAT I DO
  10. VISITING POET
  11. LIQUOR CONTROL ON CUMBERLAND STREET
  12. SPEAKING VOLUMES
  13. SAFELY HOME
  14. HARBOURED
  15. THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART, AT NIGHT, AFTER THE ATTACKS OF 9/11
  16. POEM IN WHICH A GENTLEMAN IS WASHING HIS HANDS, IN A FAR ROOM
  17. IL MARRONE MONDO
  18. TO GIVERNY
  19. THE WORKERS
  20. AGREEABLE NOISE
  21. BEESONG
  22. THE NOISY ONES
  23. BIRD BRAINS
  24. TWO GULLS, HIGH ABOVE, AT NOON
  25. PIANISSIMO
  26. THE BACH SUITE
  27. PRACTICAL ORDER ON ROAD 110 SOUTH NEAR STRATFORD
  28. VARIANCE ON ROAD 110 NORTH NEAR STRATFORD
  29. PLENITUDE AND CONFORMITY, IN THE LEASIDE LONGO’S
  30. SIDETRACKED, AT CHARNY
  31. MINOR APOCALYPTICS AT HOME
  32. A NEW PSALM, OF ACCURATE PRAISE
  33. A NEW PSALM, OF UNCERTAINTY
  34. A NEW PSALM, OF VAULTING
  35. A NEW PSALM, IN A DEEP PIT
  36. A NEW PSALM, OF UNKNOWN IRONIES
  37. A NEW PSALM, OF THE OBOIST
  38. A NEW PSALM, OF STRANGENESS
  39. HARD PLACE
  40. HABEAS CORPUS
  41. AN END OF READING
  42. CREDO
  43. POPE INNOCENT’S HOLIDAY IN SUBIACO, AUGUST 1202
  44. BORN WRONG IN HOLY WEEK
  45. END
  46. SHRINE
  47. CAGED
  48. MESSE
  49. STAY
  50. NOSTALGIA
  51. THE WALT WHITMAN PROJECT
  52. ANNA’S LOVERS
  53. CEDARSMELL: AL PURDY
  54. FURNITURE
  55. SWEET ONE HUNDREDS
  56. YOUR HANDS, YOUR EYES
  57. WITH ONE OF A SET OF DUELLING PISTOLS
  58. THE SHAPE OF DUST
  59. FINALLY THE END OF POETRY
  60. NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS