Where We Live
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Where We Live

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shell in the night sky / and whose anti-clockwise spiral / repeats the Milky Way's unwinding / informed not with the lore of clocks or teachers / but of gods and children Where We Live explores how specific places and their features (street scenes, classrooms, furniture, creatures both real and mythical) become part of our identities, and illustrates how we carry them around and how we are shaped by their outlines even as we, in turn, transform them. This reciprocity extends to the adoption of other voices in the translated poems that are a vital part of each section, and to the active participation of the reader invited by the collection's flexible use of poetic form. John Reibetanz's approach comes from a conviction that the most compelling and significant features of human identity are not primarily found in solitude but rather evolve through our conversations with otherness. This collection works as a kind of long poem, its three parts interconnected, each presenting a particular interpretation of the process of possession, loss, and recovery. "Thresholds" deals with encounters between the self and the other – childhood experiences, family, familiar places – and seeks ways of transcending the disappointment within such sources. "Roommates" explores both the uniqueness and the reciprocity in human relationships with the natural world, and "Flyways" posits that there is no separation between the human/natural and the imaginative: however far-flung, they all interweave and constitute the territory where we live.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780773598843
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía canadiense

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. I THRESHOLDS
  5. THE COILED SHELL
  6. GEORGE WASHINGTON CROSSES THE DELAWARE IN P.S. 140
  7. PHONEBOOTH NOSTALGIA
  8. IN MEMORY I LIE
  9. WHITE AND BLACK
  10. MURANO GLASS
  11. MISSED CONNECTION
  12. FIELD REPORTS
  13. WAITING ROOM
  14. SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, 1:21
  15. THE BASSWOOD BEDSTEAD
  16. FOUR BRICK HOUSES
  17. HOLDINGS
  18. OPENWORK
  19. TRANSPLANT
  20. REPURPOSING
  21. II ROOMMATES
  22. NAVIGATING SPRINGWATER TOWNSHIP
  23. FRAMING THE COSMOS
  24. WHO FIRST
  25. TRANSMIGRATIONS
  26. PROSERPINA
  27. COMMUTER, ON THE WING
  28. GROUNDED
  29. CREATURE LONGINGS
  30. SERPENTS ON A WALNUT CROSIER
  31. EMBRACE
  32. THE GATE
  33. APPROACHING THE SOUL
  34. WHITE OVER BLUE
  35. OLD SOUL
  36. PLACENTIA ISLAND
  37. PAPER COVERS ROCK
  38. AT HOME WITH THE FAMILY
  39. SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, 2:1
  40. SHARED ACCOMMODATIONS
  41. III FLYWAYS
  42. POLAR VISIONS
  43. AT THE CORNER OF OIL AND BEEF
  44. TWEET
  45. SACRED SPACE
  46. THE GUIDE SPEAKS
  47. ST. FRANCIS IN MANHATTAN
  48. THE HOUSE OF MYTH: IN MEMORY OF NORTHROP FRYE
  49. FRESCO MAGIC
  50. CLUB OF ROME
  51. A BRIEF TOUR OF MURANO
  52. DETROIT
  53. REINCARNATIONS
  54. MANDELSTAM’S NOTEBOOKS
  55. RENEWALS
  56. MIDDELBURG, ZEELAND
  57. THE TREE ON RUE DESCARTES
  58. 1001 NIGHTS IN BURANO
  59. TWO LONG-DISTANCE FLYERS
  60. NOLI ME TANGERE
  61. THE KINGFISHER PETROGLYPH
  62. ENCHANTMENTS
  63. NOTES
  64. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS