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Beautiful children with pet foxes / Jennifer LoveGrove.

Title
Beautiful children with pet foxes / Jennifer LoveGrove.
Author
LoveGrove, Jennifer
Publication
[Toronto, Ontario] : BookThug, 2017.

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Description
83 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes, the new collection of poetry from Giller Prize-longlisted writer Jennifer LoveGrove, attempts to make sense of a difficult and unsettling world, where one need not look much further than their own communities to witness acts of trauma and absurdity. Here, we're haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us, and bear witness to moments of extreme crisis-in emotional breakdowns, the failures of the mental health system, the lack of support for the most vulnerable members of society, and the impact of psychosis not only on the ill but on those orbiting them. With inventive and startling imagery and logic, we're led on an odyssey through the terrain of startling dreamscapes, where a whole host of personas, both tame and wild-from humans, to foxes, moose, deer and crows, slugs, fish, beetles, mosquitos, earthworms, and more-give voice to the things we can't express in our daily lives."--
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Incident report: describing the dwelling -- Dinner table -- Self-portrait as a mollusk -- The stains I scrubbed from the floor -- Dream specimen 23 -- I know my own limits and they are rigid -- Wipe clean the sky -- When I was four I put a tent pole through my cheek -- Self-portrait on a Tuesday -- Hypochondria -- Suspension bridges -- Fail another spit test -- Good lighting is important -- Incident report: identifying characteristics -- Dream specimen 62 -- Brock Street -- Self-portrait as a leaky boat -- Seventh floor -- Incident report: location -- Cranked up -- Dream specimen 95 -- Market research -- Orphan of overboard -- Incident report: vehicle -- Art therapy -- Self-portrait as sawdust -- A window that won't close -- Air and dirt -- Every day -- On not knowing how she got home or How many weeks she'd been gone -- Autumn takes its rifle for a walk -- Dream specimen 178 -- I always hear songs playing -- Incident report: suspect status -- Stretch your arms overhead and your body will know there is no threat -- Beautiful children with pet foxes -- We are small and so we think small -- A cauterizing dawn -- Incident report: assets and belongings -- Prorogation -- The mortgage broker asks for my net income from the previous year -- Roofers -- Dream specimen 227 -- Incident report: injury code -- Self-portrait as a moth reincarnated as an oak tree -- Tasseography -- Homalambulophobia -- fear of touching or Walking on flat surfaces.
ISBN
  • 9781771662864
  • 1771662867
OCLC
966984155
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library