Download or read book Noble Gas Penny Black written by David O'Meara and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- I -- The Next Day -- Station -- Travel -- Sick Day -- Charlotte St. -- Airport -- Tales from the Revolution -- All-Inclusive -- This Age -- Czarna Polewka -- Nothing -- Night Train -- The Postal Museum -- Boswell by the Fire -- II -- Root Cellar -- The Game -- After the Funeral -- The Old Story -- North Sea Music -- The Throw -- III -- I Used to Live Around Here -- Café in Bodrum -- Japan Was Weird -- Arriving Early -- First -- Powerboat -- The Day of the Invasion -- The Late Show -- Ever -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Biography

Download or read book A Pretty Sight written by David O'Meara and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by "time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvass," O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay.

Download or read book Masses on Radar written by David O’Meara and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 2022 WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD 2022 Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane. Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David O’Meara, standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations, inviting re-evaluation of past goals, confronting personal loss, and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar, indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching, and in the center of the radar is the lyric 'I' sweeping its adjacent experience. Poems like "I Carry a Mouse to the Park Beside the Highway," "I Keep One Eye Open and One Eye Closed," and "I Sleep as the Volcano Ash Falls like Snow,” usher the reader through thematic corridors of memory, fracture, and recovery. Embracing uncertainty and incorporating seasonal forecasts, humour, trivia, satire, politics, the environment, loss, and the mundane, these poems are a detection system signaling a paradox of meanings.' "Masses on Radar exhibits a stunning mastery of poetic craft. O’Meara has the talent and technique to turn almost anything into riveting poetry, but these poems do not coast: they dig deep, bringing to vivid life a remarkable array of subjects, experiences, emotions, and interior worlds. These poems summon quotidian encounters, sometimes conferring them with unexpected beauty, sometimes breathing new and sudden problems into them. O’Meara’s sparse language lifts the veil on our human failings, the limits of our vision, and in so doing satisfies." – Archibald Lampman Award Judges

Download or read book Quill Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology written by Heather McHugh and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and valuable literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. The judges for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize are Heather McHugh, David O'Meara, and Fiona Sampson. And each year the editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology gathers the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections. Royalties generated from The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.

Download or read book The Malahat Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Burning Alphabet written by Barry Dempster and published by London, Ont. : Brick Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ANGEL HUSKY -- EXPLICIT -- HANDPRINTS -- THE DEAD ELM -- WHEN THE GODS DON'T LOVE YOU -- A SMALL JUNGLE -- DETACHED -- ANGEL HUSKY -- DEER -- UNBELIEVABLE, AN OCTOBER POEM -- CLOSET -- SEX, A WISH LIST -- HOW TO FORGET YOU -- STORMY WEATHER -- ETCETERA -- MR. MEMORY -- SUBURBAN POET -- SICK DAYS -- 1/ DIAGNOSIS -- 2/ AFTER READING YET ANOTHER ARTICLE ON DEADLY VIRUSES -- 3/ MOTHER NATURE -- 4/ SIGNS OF HEALTH -- 5/ IN CAMERA -- 6/ LOVE LIFE -- 7/ THE GOOD OLD FEARS -- 8/ GUARDIAN ANGELS -- 9/ SICK DAYS -- 10/ GETTING OUT OF BED -- 11/ MONET'S GARDEN -- 12/ MAPLE FEVER -- 13/ THE MOMENT -- 14/ CHILL -- 15/ MAKING LOVE TO A SICK MAN -- 16/ NEW WORLD -- BAD HABITS -- BAD HABITS -- PLURAL -- THERE ARE MOODS -- TAKING CARE -- FOUR THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE COMMITTING SUICIDE -- SOCRATES THE CATERPILLAR -- SHRIEK -- RECOGNITION -- EVERYWHERE -- THE SANGRE DE CRISTO CLOSED ROAD BLUES -- THE CROWD OF HIM -- FATHER-LOVE -- PRETENDING -- DISAPPEARING FATHERS -- WINGS -- ENLIGHTENED -- WHERE? -- MISSING PERSON -- THE CROWD OF HIM -- THE CAT'S MEOW -- UGLY BONES -- THREE LIVES/THREE DEATHS -- ANGER SONG -- BAD GUYS -- ALL THESE BODIES -- THE MAN WHO WON'T PLAY POETRY -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIOGRAPHY

Download or read book Little Black Book of Stories written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.

Download or read book Creative Writing Four Genres in Brief written by David Starkey and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.

Download or read book Hacker Packer written by Cassidy McFadzean and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playfully inventive and invigorating debut collection of poetry from a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize. With settings ranging from the ancient sites and lavish museums of Europe to the inner-city neighbourhood in North Central Regina where the poet grew up, the poems in Cassidy McFadzean’s startling first collection embrace myth and metaphysics and explore the contradictory human impulses to create art and enact cruelty. A child burn victim is conscripted into a Grade Eight fire safety seminar; various road-killed animals make their cases for sainthood; and the fantastical visions in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights move off the canvas and onto the speaker’s splendid pair of leggings. Precociously wise, formally dexterous, and unrepentantly strange, the poems in Hacker Packer present a wholly memorable poetic debut.

Download or read book Airstream Land Yacht written by Ken Babstock and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love song to the worldless parts of the world, Airstream Land Yacht explores the inexpressible. Partly grounded in the concrete of everday experience and partly floating away in the ineffable, these poems delve into questions of conscience and problems of consciousness. Generating music from paradox, they treat the intellect as equal parts junk heap and life preserver, making for a spellbinding collection that charts a bold new direction for an acclaimed poet.

Download or read book Overground Railroad written by Candacy A. Taylor and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical exploration of the Green Book offers “a fascinating [and] sweeping story of black travel within Jim Crow America across four decades” (The New York Times Book Review). Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because they couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem. It took courage to be listed in the Green Book, and Overground Railroad celebrates the stories of those who put their names in the book and stood up against segregation. Author Candacy A. Taylor shows the history of the Green Book, how we arrived at our present historical moment, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020

Download or read book Krypton Xenon Radon written by H. L. Clever and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solubility Data Series, Volume 2: Krypton, Xenon, and Radon – Gas Solubilities is a three-chapter text that presents the solubility data of various forms of the title compounds in different substrates. This series emerged from the fundamental trend of the Solubility Data Project, which is toward integration of secondary and tertiary services to produce in-depth critical analysis and evaluation. Each chapter deals with the experimental solubility data of the noble gases in several substrates, including water, salt solutions, organic compounds, and biological fluids. This book will prove useful to chemists, researchers, and students.

Download or read book Radiant Danse Uv Being written by Jeff Pew and published by Blewointment Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a blewointment book "bill bissett is my astral twin." --Margaret Atwood Many of Canada's most renowned poets salute a national treasure in this poetic tribute to bill bissett. bissett has been a landmark on the Canadian literary scene since the 1960s, renowned as much for his fascinating life as for his poetics. He is best known for his anti-conventional poetry, which makes use of phonetic spelling and visual elements, and for his performances of concrete sound, chanting, and dancing during poetry readings. bissett is also the founder of blewointment press (now Nightwood Editions). Throughout his life, bissett has attracted a host of admirers--and not just from the counterculture movement. Poets of all styles are fans of his work, including Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Di Brandt, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, bp Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Jay MillAr, PK Page, and Darren Wershler-Henry. No Canadian poet has gained a wider acceptance in the various poetic "schools" than bissett. His work transcends boundaries, appealing to those whose tastes run toward the traditional and to the more avant-garde. Now, for the first time, this diverse group of more than 80 poets comes together in one book to celebrate bissett's life and work. radiant danse uv being is an essential text for anyone interested in the work of bill bissett--and in Canadian literature itself.

Download or read book Helium written by Rudy Francisco and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy's poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled with work that is simultaneously personal and political, blending love poems, self-reflection, and biting cultural critique on class, race and gender into an unforgettable whole. Ultimately, Rudy's work rises above the chaos to offer a fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty.

Download or read book The Disappearing Spoon written by Sam Kean and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.

Download or read book The Vicinity written by David O'Meara and published by London, Ont. : Brick Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vicinity David O'Meara gives us a new kind of cityscape, one that brings its unseen, and usually unsung, materials to the foreground. Brick, concrete (that "not-so-silver screen / our walk-on parts are posed upon"), glass, steel, wire: they step boldly from anonymity into fresh focus, backdrops goaded into stardom. Full of casually worn wit and humour, often using intricate forms that deftly reflect their subjects, these poems probe our conventional attitudes while walking us down present or remembered streets -- "Some-such Avenue / Rue Saint Whatever." A red brick wall, framed in timber beams and mortar, collects the last gold of November warmth on this lit morning. It hasn't rested, though idle all these years. A brick wall is stoic toil. Compare one to your mother. --from "Brickwork" "'Let / how I loved to be here / not change, ' David O'Meara says, almost under his breath, in one of the stirring, subtle cadences he is perpetually discovering. The Vicinity wanders and wonders, seeking a possible home, and along the road it notices, savours, questions and praises every sight and sound, from a steel vertex to an old poster for a long-gone ska concert. Paradoxically, in his 'fog of love, homelessness' O'Meara's innovative mastery of form and rhythm creates perfect, if fleeting, homes for the spirit at every step on these restless streets." -- A. F. Moritz