Research Catalog

Title

Last child to come inside / Michelle Desbarats.

Author

Desbarats, Michelle.

Publication

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

60 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• These are poignant, at times strangely quirky entries into a world filled with sharpness, the sense of imminent danger, and a sensual urge that seems to sweep all danger before it. The border between exterior and interior life is diffuse ... one can find oneself in unexpected places.
• Two little girls in yellow dresses who are never seen again, Jesus and Elvis vacationing in Bermuda, a town after the fair has gone, women showering after a swim, Picasso becoming a red velvet dress: these are just a few of the images conjured in Michelle's first collection.

Series Statement

Harbinger poetry series ; 6

Uniform Title

Harbinger poetry series ; no. 6.

Contents

God and Brussels Sprouts -- Garden -- The Trapeze -- Every Night Sleeping with the Nailed Door -- The Births of my Sisters -- Doing Makeup -- Cherry Belly -- Driving -- Box Ride -- Countryside So Green -- Lobster Supper Party -- The Park -- Christmas Ornament -- Lip Marks -- Sliced Peaches -- Desire -- Morning Glories -- Visit -- Fire -- The Deal -- The Night Picasso Became My Red Velvet Dress -- Y. -- Someone in the Upstairs Apartment -- The Collector -- Dreaming of You -- Night for Falling -- Walking in the Desert -- Men's Coats -- Taste -- Lunch -- Peas -- When I Lived Among Birds -- My Guardian Angel is Teaching Me How to Play Pool -- In Bermuda -- Smoking the Girl Guide Basket -- Choosing a Counter -- Intelligent Men -- Bread -- Penguins -- Fair -- Gordon -- Nickels -- Jessica -- Taking -- Promises -- Calling the Loons -- Showering With the Japanese -- Red Horses -- Fall -- My Mother's Desk.

ISBN

0886293472

LCCN

cn 98901289

OCLC

ocm40269868

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries