Open Field PA

Included in this unparalleled collection are Christian Bök, AnneCarson, and Erin Mouré, whose experiments with genre have landed theminternational acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whoseexplorations of the pastoral and the sonnet, respectively, reach as farback into poetry's history as they do into the future of those forms;George Elliot Clarke, whose striking lyrics have been adapted foropera; and Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, who have reinventedsome of poetry's primordial components from the wilder fringes of theCanadian landscape.Along with Nicole Brossard, Dionne Brand, Christopher Dewdney, SusanGoyette, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Michael Ondaantje, Fred Wah, andothers, these poets have been carefully chosen to convey theexhilarating commotion and diversity of Canadian verse. For nativereaders, Open Field represents a handy selection of theircountry's most vibrant writers, both established and emergent; forreaders in the United States and elsewhere, it is the perfectintroduction to the skill and daring ubiquitous in Canadian poetrytoday.

Winds	p. 3
Green	p. 4
Blood	p. 5
Autobiography	p. 6
Strawberries	p. 7
The loneliness of the military historian	p. 8
The moment	p. 12
First lesson in unpopular mechanics	p. 13
What we didn't tell the medic	p. 14
Palindromic	p. 16
Pragmatist	p. 20
from Chapter A	p. 22
from Chapter E	p. 24
from Chapter I	p. 26
from Chapter O	p. 28
from Chapter U	p. 30
from Kerrisdale elegies	p. 32
from Every chapter of the world	p. 38
Typhoon thrum	p. 48
Sleepers awake	p. 53
Always, not always	p. 55
Age and the secretary	p. 57
Clinic day	p. 59
Fertility test	p. 60
Short talk on Gertrude Stein about 9:30	p. 62
Short talk on trout	p. 63
Short talk on walking backwards	p. 64
Short talk on reading	p. 65
Short talk on the youth at night	p. 66
Short talk on orchids	p. 67
Short talk on the truth to be had from dreams	p. 68
Short talk on the sensation of aeroplane takeoff	p. 69
The student's tale	p. 70
Blank sonnet	p. 71
The wisdom of Shelley	p. 72
Prelude	p. 73
Monologue for Selah bringing spring to Whylah Falls	p. 74
To Selah	p. 76
Quilt	p. 77
Lear of Whylah Falls	p. 78
Packing for the future : instructions	p. 79
Fear of snakes	p. 81
Cucumbers	p. 82
Carrots	p. 83
Onions	p. 84
Conkerbells	p. 85
The doctor	p. 86
Down the bay	p. 87
Flirrup	p. 88
Mad Moll and Crazy Betty	p. 89
My one brother	p. 90
She	p. 91
Sterricky	p. 92
The water man	p. 93
Yet	p. 94
Night haul	p. 95
Breakfast	p. 96
Fo'c'sle dreams	p. 97
Scotchman salvage	p. 98
Setting	p. 99
Gutting	p. 100
Mending	p. 101
Morning set	p. 102
The memory table I	p. 103
Radiant inventory	p. 104
Depth sounding, Lake Windermere	p. 106
The immaculate perception	p. 107
The cenozoic asylum	p. 108
The true names of birds	p. 112
This contradiction of passion	p. 113
The moon on Friday night	p. 114
The mythology of cures	p. 115
In this January	p. 118
from Roadbook : suite of hands	p. 119
Reaction to what you said	p. 127
Freestyle (why they don't like rap)	p. 129
Theory my natural brown ass	p. 131
from Dumb animal	p. 133
from Un	p. 137
Contemplation is mourning	p. 144
Stability	p. 146
How to be here?	p. 147
Sunflowers at prime	p. 150
Pumpkins	p. 152
Small print	p. 154
Waking at the mouth of the willow river	p. 159
Early instruments	p. 160
Chickadee encounter	p. 161
The laugh	p. 162
Setting the table	p. 163
Sometimes a voice (1)	p. 165
Kinds of blue #41 (far hills)	p. 167
Morphine, or the cutting stone	p. 168
from Sheep's vigil for a fervent person	p. 174
Easter pome	p. 178
Cycle #22	p. 179
Landscape : 1	p. 180
Song for Saint Ein	p. 181
From Catullus poem LI	p. 182
Love song 2	p. 183
A little song	p. 184
The nine sentiments	p. 185
Residence at C	p. 194
Tuesday	p. 196
Residence at C	p. 199
Seven paintings by Brueghel	p. 201
Cardio room, young women's Christian association	p. 208
Meeting Walter Benjamin	p. 209
Thrasher	p. 210
An argument for small arms	p. 212
Larking	p. 213
Emergency response	p. 214
More fun in the new world	p. 215
Homage to Charlotte Rampling	p. 216
The influence of anxiety at the seaside with tea	p. 217
Leaving Paris	p. 219
The tenant of Wildfeld Hall	p. 220
Ballad of the solitary diner	p. 221
3 pictograms from the interior of BC	p. 223
Father/mother haibun #4	p. 226
Father/mother haibun #11	p. 227
Music at the heart of thinking 22	p. 228
Music at the heat of thinking 42	p. 229
Music at the heart of thinking 52	p. 230
Music at the heart of thinking 54	p. 231
You must believe in spring	p. 232
Lilacs	p. 234
Beethoven : Op. 95	p. 236
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