Research Catalog

Title

Jumping in the asylum / Patrick Friesen.

Author

Friesen, Patrick, 1946-

Publication

Toronto : Quattro Books, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Briesmaster, Allan

Description

60 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Wide-ranging in subject, deeply intuitive and layered in style, influenced equally by the cadences of jazz and by the Bible, the poems in jumping in the asylum will stand out among this distinguished author's strongest work"--Publisher.

Series Statement

Quattro poetry

Uniform Title

Quattro poetry

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Canadian poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Crows -- Storm windows -- Daughter -- Still life without Einstein -- Pale sky amnesia -- Our leaving and our leaving again -- Rousing in a dream of root and slough -- Bombed by the sun -- The water that remembers -- Son -- Solace -- Jumping in the asylum -- Dragging the river -- Gone like the bell-ringer's wife -- Anna and Rose -- Alma -- Anointed -- Lower Fish street -- Let the sun shine a shadow across their graves -- A greasy sax solo -- An empty dress hanging from the sky -- One foot on the platform -- Koestler's window -- O'Keeffe bones -- Cross-wired -- One summer night at la bodega -- Our lady of Guadalupe -- And she says why speak of it -- Watering their graves with your blood -- A long day's gaze into delirium -- Perfectly alive at the edge of light -- Room 205 -- Nonno facing the sun -- Nothing comes to you that won't come later -- Mongolian radio Ray Price fiddles hank locklin and spruce tree sighs -- Goya's room -- Blue-eyed son of a brown-eyed son -- Lucifer -- Ecstatic to arrive -- Loose in the house of fundamentalism -- Collecting bottles -- Poem for Jonah.

ISBN

9781926802572 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011514992

OCLC

• 729990891
• SCSB-10921468

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library