Connie Fife is one of Canada's warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother and child, as well as the NATO genocide in Yugoslavia. Reflecting on her own life, she carves out a space for new forms of loving that will act as a transforming force for people of all colours so that they may breathe the air of freedom, the air of a world rich in biodiversity. Revolutionary as they may be, these poems also care about language, about how language can become the food and joy of life. As she says, I have prepared a bowl of ripened poems / with which to ease our hunger, placed an empty gourd beside the bed of love which waits to be filled by our stories carried / across the heartlands of distance we will have travelled. These are poems of revolution, of love, of inspiration.
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- C811/.54
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- 21
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- 9781553805366 9780921870906
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- PR9199.3.F5182
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- P64 2001eb
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- 1 electronic text (86 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Other Books by Connie Fife 3
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Dedication 10
- New Year’s Eve 1999 12
- The Call 13
- For Our Sons and Daughters 14
- Touching Down 15
- A Poem For Your Journey 16
- A Mother’s Song 17
- Lullaby for a Loved One 18
- A View from the Balcony 19
- Across the Water 20
- At the Lake 22
- Now as a Grown Woman 23
- Courtroom 24
- For Prince Edward and Princess Sophie 25
- Mt. Douglas Beach 26
- Determination and Love 27
- Goldstream 28
- Venus 29
- Those Poems 30
- Elusive 33
- The Parting 34
- The Sisters 35
- Crow 36
- To The Peacemaker 37
- In the Moment 39
- Eulogy 40
- A New World Poem 41
- On All Fronts 47
- The Docks 50
- Peace is Not Genocide 51
- Can You 53
- For Matthew Shepard 54
- Exiled 55
- Politics 56
- For James Byrd Jr. 57
- Satellite and Moon 58
- Skytrain Blues 59
- Navigating a Storm 60
- Golden Gate Bridge 61
- Old Friends 62
- The Poets 63
- Spring Breaks Ground 65
- Our View 66
- Soda Creek 67
- Island Storm 68
- Ode to Poetry 69
- Making of a Poem 70
- Ivy 71
- Sound of Trees 72
- Letters and Phone Calls 73
- Questions 74
- San Francisco Bay 75
- Mt. Douglas 76
- The Ferry Over 77
- Song for Venus 78
- Today 79
- Chasing Blue 80
- Witnessing 81
- The Way Back 82
- Buses 83
- A Room In Charlottetown 84
- Solar Song 85
- Velvet For Anna-Marie 86
- Berries and Ripened Poems 87
- About the Author 88