Lenea Grace's debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur's hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, I'm not smoking and it's not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979. A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and strips the Atlantic bare.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781773051895 9781770414211
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.G6825
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (83 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00976577 (OCoLC)1031964365 (CaOOCEL)479540
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 7
- Proofs 12
- Pressure Drop 14
- Faceblue 16
- The Cock-n-Bull 18
- Boat Song 19
- Our Landscape 21
- Door Frame, Late Morning 22
- Flat Tire in Vermilion Bay 23
- To Pogamasing 25
- The Brash Tides 26
- Tracing One Warm Line 27
- Calgary, 1981 29
- Hitchhikers 30
- Larry Bird Mows the Lawn 32
- Montreal Poem; or, Our Hearts Are Not Like Wheels; or, Les Habitants 33
- Rib 35
- Mercy Fuck 36
- John Island I 37
- TUЯBO 39
- A Man I Never Loved 41
- The Why and the How 43
- Geography 44
- John Island II 45
- On Yonge Street 47
- Highway 17 48
- Auld Lang Syne, etc. 50
- Eulogy 52
- In Sechelt 53
- Yukon River 54
- Mr. Peanut 56
- Sharp Flesh 58
- Taxidermy 59
- Organ Donor 61
- I Remember the Words 62
- Carpentry 64
- Sudbury, Ont. 65
- Grace Escapes 66
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff 68
- Blond Satan 69
- Bound 70
- Ice Pick Lobotomy 71
- Because 72
- Barber 73
- Wisdom Teeth 74
- Bride and Wolf 75
- Orca Fart 76
- Conductor 77
- Just Grit 78
- The Free 79
- On the Derby Day 80
- The Load Out/Stay 82
- For Boris 83
- Influence 84
- Acknowledgments 86
- Back Cover 90