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Congratulations, rhododendrons

Title
Congratulations, rhododendrons / Mary Germaine.
Author
Germaine, Mary
Publication
  • [Toronto] : Anansi, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
80 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world. Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon, Germaine surfs the confluence of artificial and natural environments, technology, and our small but consequential feelings about them. At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason. In anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or "fake-ness") demand investigation. Germaine's poems scroll from a shrine in Lourdes to an augmented-reality sandbox, from a mall filled with loitering ex-love interests to a fairy-tale ending where all the men turn out to be chairs. Funny, provocative, sly, and melancholic, Congratulations, Rhododendrons makes a case for the hope that every apparent disaster of social investment might in the end be redeemed as meaningful, genuine, or at least in some way helpful."--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Note
  • Poems.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Contents
Part One -- Ode -- Some History of This -- Marion's House -- March of the Penguins -- The Cliche Inventor -- In the Lounge of the Overnight Ferry from Port Sydney to Port aux Basques, the Television Flashes -- Lyrics to Wake Up Arcade Fire -- Ekphrastic -- I Didn't Love You -- Valediction -- Lourdes -- The Reception -- The Look on Your Face When You Learn They Make Antacids Out of Marble -- For the Couple with Everything -- "Let the Good Times Roll" -- Good News -- Crush Heaven -- Scene Study -- Augmented Reality Sandbox -- Super Moon -- Part Two -- Upon Hearing How Long It Takes a Plastic Bag to Break Down -- The New Routine -- This Is the Day -- Lines from Inside a Cage of Bees Which Are Not in Fact Bees Because All the Bees Are Dead Forever and Who Let That Happen Hey -- Yeah, I Could Eat -- Every Poem Where I Have to Pee in It Is a Pastoral -- Coffee at Night -- The Facts -- End of July, Early August -- Love Story with No Ark and Two of Nearly Everything -- Since It's Better to Want What You'll Get in the End -- The Gift, or "Things Will Be Fine" -- Everyone in Paradise Is Coughing Their Heads Off -- Take, for Example, This Hummingbird -- The Rebel -- Lies I'm Deciding to Live -- Second Love -- The Put-Pocket -- Happily -- Life Loves the Liver of It -- Lines on Substance and Shadow / Charles Green Shaw.
Call Number
JFD 21-3226
ISBN
  • 9781487008680
  • 1487008686
OCLC
1180972333
Author
Germaine, Mary, author.
Title
Congratulations, rhododendrons / Mary Germaine.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Anansi, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Other Form:
Online version: Germaine, Mary. Congratulations, rhododendrons. Toronto : Anansi, 2021 1487008694 9781487008697 (OCoLC)1196907730
Research Call Number
JFD 21-3226
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