From her real-life experience as a doctor trying her best to heal patients, to wartime Japan and the devastation of Hiroshima, Shklanka's poems beg us to witness and explore our own humanity: how we interact with one another, carry on in everyday life, love, grieve. Poems such as Witness, Ceremonies for Despair, and One by One are astonishing examples of how Shklanka's work, while varied in both style and perspective, retains a powerful, captivating voice that creates a common thread, guiding the reader through the collection.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781550506679 9781550506686
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.S534
- LCCN Item number
- C478 2016eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (100 pages)
- Published in
- Regina, Saskatchewan
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00970968 (OCoLC)946548289 (CaOOCEL)451231
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Front Matter 2
- Book & Copyright Information 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Gaultheria Shallon (The Way In),Salt Spring Island 10
- I 12
- Empty 14
- (M)ending 15
- Tango Competition 17
- Witness 18
- Neither of Us Wants to Keep the Photographs 20
- The Field 21
- About the Leaves 23
- Day After 24
- II 26
- One by One 28
- Ceremonies for the Middle Notes 30
- Malena canta el tango 32
- Distraction 33
- Antidote I 34
- Rash 35
- Lying is Part of the Disease 37
- Antidote II 39
- To Be a Woman and Be Likeable 40
- Trying Not To Remember the Woman in the ER 42
- Indiferencia 43
- Guiding us, or Taking us Down 45
- Ceremonies for Despair 47
- Hospital Rounds 49
- The Answer 53
- III 54
- Sparrow 56
- IV 62
- Walk to the Mailbox 64
- One Thing Above All the Rest 65
- V 68
- Flight Log 70
- VI 84
- Prayer Wheel 86
- VII 96
- Questions 98
- Solstice Milonga, Hornby Island 99
- Field Guide to the Penis 101
- Behind the Cabin at D’Arcy 103
- Notes on the poems 106
- Acknowledgements 110
- About the Author 112
- Other titles by Karen Shklanka 113
