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Title

Written in the skin : [a poetic response to AIDS] / edited by Rob McLennan ; photographs by Jules de Niverville.

Publication

Toronto : Insomniac Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

McLennan, Rob.

Description

ix, 150 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• AIDS (Disease) > Literary collections > Canada
• Canadian poetry > 20th century

Note

• Subtitle from spine and cover.

Contents

• Introduction / rob mclennan -- "He hit him on the shoulders" / Clint Burnham -- double craving / Nicole Markotic -- The Carefully Compared Body / Gil McElroy -- roly-poly marxists / Kathryn Payne -- Slow Birth / Matt Stranach -- Kind of Blue: An Elegy / Stan Rogal -- flesh of my flesh / michael achtman -- Carbon 12 / Gil McElroy -- Symbolic Logic / Stephanie Bolster -- Love, I am Grateful / Sappho and Steven Heighton -- sex at thirty-one / Artie Gold -- On Self-Love, or When I Caught My Love in My Hand / Ken Babstock -- Thoughts On "Bringing Up Baby" / Sky Gilbert -- Prospero: Young Ferdinand, - whom they suppose is drown'd / Melra Cook -- Julian Day 2449377 / Gil McElroy -- the bath / Catherine Jenkins -- The Speed of Falling Bodies / Mark Cochrane -- monos / Phlip Arima -- Berating to Exhale / R. M. Vaughan -- outlaw / Clare Latremouille -- Sarnac Lake Variation / John Barton -- Two Divers Lost, Howe Sound / Ken Babstock -- Soft Science / Karen Massey --
• Friction / David O'Meara -- three poems / nathalie stephens -- Authority / Ken Babstock -- Carbon 8 / Gil McElroy -- there was no blood / Ian Whistle -- after plurality: the first person pronoun / Nicole Markotic -- Girls, Girls, Girls / Una McDonnell -- Final Past My Arms / Mac McArthur -- Best Bitter / Robin Hannah -- go / Brian Burke -- I Want a New Car / Eric Folsom -- 02 Sept 95 / Ian Stephens -- Sept 95 / Ian Stephens -- in which we discuss the passage rites of manhood / Clare Latremouille -- dream of the garden of live flowers / Stephanie Bolster -- "in this bed tell me a long, hopeless story to outlast me" / R. M. Vaughan -- Fifty-seventh birthday / John Newlove -- Grand Metis Summer 1995 / Ian Stephens -- Mirror Gazing / Marilyn Bowering -- December 25, '91 - The Big Panic / Robin Hannah -- "How I wish they'd quit asking" / Blaine Marchand -- Welcome The Death / Allison Grayhurst -- This Afternoon is Family / Mac McArthur --
• This Big Fuck / Judith Fitzgerald -- Julian Day 2449146 / Gil McElroy -- Why I Will Not Wear the Red Ribbon at Your Grave / R. M. Vaughan -- Beyond Recognition / John Barton -- A Morphine Headache / Jill Battson -- Cuffnells / Stephanie Bolster -- Robert / Ken Norris -- "Moments fall onto the road like water." / Maggie Helwig -- this afternoon i bled / Joe Blades -- Dementia / John Barton -- Greg again with no closure / Jill Battson -- Promised Land / Steven Heighton -- White Ward Men / Mac McArthur.

ISBN

1895837375 (pbk.)

LCCN

cn 98931976

OCLC

ocm39713606

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries