Research Catalog

Title

For the boy with the eyes of the virgin : selected poems / John Barton.

Author

Barton, John, 1957-

Publication

Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU

Description

135 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Poets, Canadian (English) > 20th century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From A Poor Photographer -- The Pregnant Man 15 -- A Poor Photographer Improves His Vision 18 -- Hidden Structure -- Hidden Structure 21 -- from West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a Self-Portrait -- Grey 39 -- St. Josephs Hospital, 1937 41 -- Forest, British Columbia 42 -- A Skidegate Pole 44 -- from Great Men -- My Cellophane Suit 46 -- Goodbye to All That 48 -- Great Men 50 -- Au Garage, Montréal 52 -- Naked Hearts 54 -- from Notes toward a Family Tree -- In the Year of 56 -- Metropolitan Life 58 -- from Designs from the Interior -- City in the Foothills 60 -- Delivery 62 -- Physical 64 -- Ecology 66 -- The Man from Grande Prairie 68 -- Parallel Lanes 70 -- For the Boy With the Eyes of the Virgin 72 -- from Sweet Ellipsis -- Touch-Screen 75 -- Saranac Lake Variation 78 -- Pushing Upstream 82 -- Confidential 84 -- The Crisis of Lyricism 88 -- from Hypothesis -- Watershed 91 -- Hypothesis 94 -- At Lindow 97 -- The Living Room 100 -- Escher 102 -- Sunrise, Grand Canyon 104 -- All That Enters Must Pass Through 108 -- from Hymn -- Aide-Mémoire 114 -- Warhol 118 -- Pathetic Fallacy 120 -- In the House of the Present 122 -- Days of 2004, Days of Cavafy 125.

ISBN

9780889712706 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012493510

OCLC

796918923

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library