Origami dove : poems / Susan Musgrave

Part one. Madagascar vanilla. Magnolia -- The room where they found you -- Conjugal visit -- Friday evening -- The coroner at the tavern -- La Oscura -- All the wild winds of the world go howling through you -- Origami dove -- True love -- Understanding the sky -- Part two. Obituary of light : the Sangan River meditations -- Part three. Random acts of poetry. I was happy, once -- Ice-age lingerie -- Al Purdy took a bus to the town where Herodotus was born -- Rest area : no loitering and other signs of the times -- No Hablo Ingles -- Meter indicates there is no time left -- Carnal garage -- Love's tourmaline shirt studs -- Women poets from antiquity to now : an anthology -- My students dare me to write ... -- Fred Biggar swims nude in the reflecting pond with koi -- Thirty-two uses for Al Purdy's ashes -- Part four. Heroines. New in town -- Her-row-in -- Picture-man (i, ii, iii, iv, v) -- Where do you find love -- Love's like -- Question(six poems) -- Mother's Day behind the West Hotel -- Baby 1995-1995 -- Fathers -- The difference between nothing and zero -- Childhood -- Spare me -- I never thought much about my body -- Bad date -- Rape happens -- What I'm planning.

The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada's most original writers. With her first major collection in ten years, Susan Musgrave displays a range of form and expression that may surprise even her most faithful readers.

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