Research Catalog

Title

Watermelon kindness / David Donnell.

Author

Donnell, David, 1939-

Publication

Toronto : MisFit Book, c2010.

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Details

Description

130 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• We are plunged into the world of Jack Hodgins and the Latin American magic realists.---William French, The Globe and Mail --
• The sum of all the poems is a powerful, wide-ranging personality, possibly the most engaging in Canadian poetry right now.---Ken Adachi, The Toronto Star --
• David Donnell's poems and stories captivate the reader with their inherent grace and beauty ... after just a few lines, you are enraptured with the language. ... The trick of the writer is to take that leap into art and keep the language new and alive. Donnell does that masterfully.---The Windsor Star --
• David Donnell has long established himself as one of the important voices in Canadian literature.---Literature and Language --
• Donnell's writing is both urbane and urban ... insightful and inciteful.---Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail --
• With more range than any other contemporary poet, Donnell ponders questions of art, history, and psychology while reveling in the sensory and all that makes us real. Whether exploring the modus operandi of other writers or paralleling the trajectory of a satellite with everyday occurrences like lost money, badly ended love affairs, or political disappointment, Watermelon Kindness is the Roman pada, a tough individual loaf approximately the size of your hand. Always concerned with what's most nourishing---why we're as crazy as we are crazy---it's forty percent crust, because crust is almost always the best of it. --Book Jacket.

Subjects

• Poetry as Topic
• Electronic books
• Poetry
• Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

Electronic books

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: LIFE STYLES -- Mariner -- At the Cafe de Kahlua on West St. Clair -- Iraq -- Obama's iPod -- A Poet in the Kitchen -- Watermelon Kindness -- It Was Before Your Time -- The Truth -- Life Enthusiasts -- Breaking Up with Miriam Mulstein -- Platforms -- Poems I've Thought of Writing -- Your Effulgence Disorients Me -- Facing the Streetcars -- Drunken Horses -- Scarlett Johansson -- Watermelon Summer -- Poetry Reading, Oak Park, Ill -- Behold the Lillies of the Field -- Remember Sean? -- In/Out -- Titles -- It's Lonely at the Top -- A Comic Moment Toward the End of a Serious Relationship -- A Slightly Stoned Descartes -- Bright Red Numbers on a Digital Morning Clock -- Grants -- Lateral Interference in Daily Life -- I'm Not Walking in Circles -- She Thinks Zen Is Too Intellectual -- Ibid -- Wills -- On Getting Over a Depression -- Book City on a Saturday Morning -- Neu Gedichte -- People Who Make the Scene -- How to Become a Better Person --
• Contents note continued: Dismissiveness -- Are Most of Us a Little Crazy? -- 10 Reasons Not to Buy a Smart Car -- How to Save Your Life -- Dizzy -- TAKE ME TO THE RIVER -- To Die For -- Djuna Barnes -- Accounting -- I Guess Baseball Players Wear Baseball Caps -- ABC -- Marco Polo in China -- Fuses -- Kansas -- Did Blavatsky Ever Meet Edward VII? -- Legzzz -- Fluid Motion -- Spreading the Word -- The Nature of Language -- Kiev Is Dark at Night and Very Historic. They Have Warm Lakes to the South -- Unforgettable Men -- Some Shocks Are Delicious -- Well-educated Well-read Young Writer Who Can't Finish His First Novel Because He's Obviously Distracted -- Jack -- Cool -- Traffic -- The 2 Giovannis -- Free Fall -- October -- Men -- OBAMA POEMS -- George the 3rd Plus His Madness -- The Differences Between Us -- Obama Campaigning -- Pre-emptive Strike -- The Significance of State -- Midwestern, Leaning East to Seaboard -- Little Moron -- Bruce's Yams --
• Contents note continued: An NFB Full of Luminous Still Photographs -- Blue Skies & Opera -- Jaffa Oranges Are Sweet -- Amazing & Innocent -- Caricature -- Driving All the Way to Tibet -- You -- Trends That Didn't Start in America -- Painters Who Were Not Exactly Put Out of Business by Jackson Pollock's Relative Success in 1942 -- The Great Philosophers Don't Listen to Enough Coltrane -- Computer Files -- Rust Never Sleeps -- Afrika/Afrique -- A Couple of Interesting Brothers -- Geraldine -- Gerald Murphy -- North of 60.

ISBN

• 9781550229141 (pbk.)
• 1550229141 (pbk.)

OCLC

445232646

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library