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Date de parution
01 octobre 2006
EAN13
9781554902774
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
01 octobre 2006
EAN13
9781554902774
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Seven INTO Even
Seven INTO Even
JACQUELINE TURNER
Copyright © Jacqueline Turner, 2006
Published by ECW PRESS 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200 , Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4E 1E2
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW PRESS.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Turner, Jacqueline, 1965— Seven into even / Jacqueline Turner.
Poems. ISBN 1-55022-746-7
I . Spenser, Edmund, 1522?-1599. Faerie queene. 2. Deadly sins—Poetry. I. Title.
PS8589.U7476S48 2OO6 C8II’.6 C2006-903597-0
A misFit Book
Editor for the press: Michael Holmes / a misFit book Cover and Text Design: Tania Craan Cover Art: John Tonkin Author photo: Brennan/Blake Kurchak Typesetting: Mary Bowness Printing: Marquis
This book is set in Fairfield
The publication of Seven Into Even has been generously supported by the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program.
DISTRIBUTION CANADA : Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Ave., Georgetown, ON L7G 5S4
PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA
CONTENTS
BOOK 1
Constant Mind
Antique Times
Strong Compulsion
Who First Should Be
Gentle Wise
Running Sore
Fell Through Emptiness
BOOK 2
Disguise
Tract of Time
Suspended Dreadfully
Things Present
Ambitious Minds
Taking Odds
Not by Strong Hand Compelled
BOOK 3
by my life
monster ready
earnestly inquire
turn back to that place
certain space
world’s desired view
much better
BOOK 4
lust
pride
envy
gluttony
sloth
greed
anger
BOOK 5
sunday
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
BOOK 6
fashion/able
fashionist/a
i/flower
brooch/the subject
into/nation
citi/zen
de/ploy
BOOK 7 (OR MUTABILITY)
They Together Run
Reason Why
These Counterfeits
Bay
1. Horseshoe
2. Lions
3. English
4. Magna
5. Blind
6. Sannick
7. Moreton
Queen(e)sland
A Brisbane Poem
Fortitude Valley
North Queensland Lustre
Outback Wanderlust
History of Sexuality
Acknowledgements
BOOK 1
Constant Mind
You play words across technical pages Your form constrained by hour and look While hiding she pops forth with imaginary goldfish That you definitely can’t eat or maybe you can You work three jobs fall asleep exhausted To the sound of someone reading dark words And dream of what abandoned coasts can offer
Antique Times
You brush dust off the surface where the TV used to sit Wax nostalgic for half a second you might bite your lip Forget remembering a breath at the back of your neck Hands cupping your breasts from behind, no you have Moved on into another cream-coloured room where Your desire can be measured in typical terms like Groceries and renovations and batteries for clocks That have recently stopped
Strong Compulsion
Mine too: it should be reasonably confessed Because you know what they say about confession And my days are measured out by coffee and breakfast Dropping off one boy and then the other: Jimi Hendrix This morning and Deep Purple tomorrow today I’m craving Leonard Cohen again and you can only listen to so much “Dear Heather” Before your chest aches with the want of what you cannot have Because you simply didn’t choose it
Who First Should Be
Walking the handful of streets that make up Horseshoe Bay Where the dog does her trick for the last tourists of the season We forgot to rent a boat this summer or didn’t have time Forgot to plant the pots and read books instead while you Contemplated a life ruined by reading or soap operas We kept making up romantic pen names for future romances Arguing to ourselves that it had to pay off in the end
