See her? / Steadfast and firm her / branches graze the mantle of quiet clouds / as she elaborates her claim Haunted by indifference toward systemic violences and the disregard endured by those people labelled as "problems," nancy viva davis halifax’s poems articulate the constraints of discredited lives. Conveying her experiences witnessing homelessness, poverty, disability, and chronic illness on the streets and within women's emergency shelters, davis halifax orients readers to recognize ongoing suffering in our society. One poem, a purl of four words, reminds the reader that Language entangles and unbinds lives, and that life is an unfastening, a knitting by which some are lost and others made separable. These are unregulated poems, poems that refuse indifference and reassert mutuality. They are not an argument, they are not assured, not facts, not a problem, not a resource, but an opening.
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- C811/.6
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- 23
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- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773545809 9780773597464
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- PR9199.4.H35623
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- H665 2015eb
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Index 12
- Chain I 13
- Chain II 14
- Chain III 15
- Intake 16
- Not as important as 17
- What is said 18
- Uses of the dead 19
- Nottingham, c. 1832 20
- Industry 21
- The sound of rain – Booth, c. 1879 22
- The army marches into Canada, c. 1882 23
- Toronto, c. 1931 24
- Lotte 25
- Toronto, c. 2013 26
- Medication time – 8 a.m. – Margrit 27
- Double Love-Knot 28
- Narissa 29
- Betty 30
- Valerie 31
- Margrit 32
- Medication time – 6 p.m. – Maude 33
- The chaplain 35
- Marge 38
- Medication time – 8 p.m. – Gwin and Celeste 39
- A Life Composed, Age Thirteen 41
- Butterfly stitch 42
- House 43
- Each body remembers the necessary distance between beds 44
- Hook 45
- Gwin 46
- Rita 47
- Marnie & Sahs 48
- Old hotel 50
- Krysta 51
- The house – imagined 52
- Homes 53
- Roommate 55
- Headlines 56
- Have you seen this child? 57
- Awake, the embers around us dying 58
- A life composed, age eleven 59
- A life composed, age twelve 60
- What to do if your country stops breathing 62
- Approaching sorrow 63
- She waited 64
- This cup is that colour 65
- Curbside 66
- Blueprint 67
- The appearance of improbable contingencies 68
- Pineapple pattern 69
- Lullaby – Gardiner Expressway 70
- Housing studies 72
- Classical conditioning 73
- Kandi 74
- The direction of memory 75
- Fare 76
- Three strikes 78
- Emergency 80
- Nos voisines 81
- Persistence at the threshold – LizaKim 83
- Prayer to prayer to prayer (grace) 84
- On Monday night, Jenny 86
- Pigeons: Southwest corner, 5 a.m. 87
- As I read what is of lessand less interest 88
- The commons (a chorus) 89
- Acknowledgments 92
