Research Catalog

Title

Designated mourner / Catherine Owen.

Author

Owen, Catherine, 1971-

Publication

Toronto : a misFit book, 2014.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Holmes, Michael, 1966-

Description

110 p.; 22 cm

Subject

Grief > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Long poem -- Constellation -- Thank you note -- Blood -- Nine hours away from the sixty-sixth avenue turnoff -- Down Job's cove -- Beyond cobequid bay -- The crackhead's routine : a fugue -- Circular -- The crackhead's palindrome -- Migration : just before this -- recovery, and -- Migration : things taken -- What of this counts -- Migration : the flight between loss -- Migration, Christmas -- The other ending -- Dream of a phoenix -- New Year's day -- Kamloops diary -- Wake : a Vietnamese Luc-Bat II -- Twenty-first day after -- Three Ghazals for grief -- [Untitled] -- Directions to the lost -- At the edge of Lake Simcoe -- Erotics of the dead -- The spa for grief -- The last perfect thing -- The Difference -- Autopsy -- Fate -- What I did with the remains -- The Ride : Vancouver/Edmonton -- July 29, 2010 -- Solace/No solace -- Why I would try it -- The Means you died by -- Lines to be dispersed -- Over your ashes -- Reincarnation redux -- Triage from the first full season after -- You shall not die a bird will make a nest / of your heart -- The ninth anniversary dinner -- The Nth chambers of the heart -- All end in death -- Between hits, this light -- Early in the morning, you left the house -- The autopsy report -- Midlife -- Poem without the word heart -- Crazy hungry -- Complicit -- Things the living do -- What you cannot change -- Another creation myth -- Ghostal or Vancouver's geography of loss -- The Bubble bath -- A birthday poem for Chris -- Reasons why you should keep dancing at the Tiki bar -- Sonnet on sleeping -- I remember being on the other side with you -- Sonnet on stopping -- Moving through -- In the region of the love poem -- On washing him -- Things you must no longer do

ISBN

• 9781770412033 (pbk.)
• 1770412034 (pbk.)

OCLC

892192634

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library