Notes on Arrival and Departure Poems

Rachel Rose follows her award-winning first book with a dazzling, urgent collection of new poems that look unflinchingly at our errors and our longings, in images that range from the disturbing to the spectacular. Anchoring the collection is a rich, unsentimental suite of lyrics on the journey of pregnancy and new motherhood. These poems are humanist, lushly imagined, and compellingly voiced.

Rachel Rose’s first book of poetry, Giving My Body to Science, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal, and won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She currently resides in Vancouver.

American Pageant	1	(1)
Woman Being Transfused by a Goat	2	(1)
Table of Ears	3	(1)
Gift of Tongues	4	(1)
Eel	5	(2)
Dark Flags	7	(2)
October Stroller	9	(2)
The Proof	11	(2)
Triple Crown	13	(2)
Two Roads Diverged	15	(2)
Sickbed	17	(2)
Passing Through Evolution	19	(2)
Wandering Womb	21	(3)
Last Passover in Montreal	24	(4)
The Night I Weaned You	28	(2)
Notes on Arrival and Departure	30	(4)
Sheets	34	(2)
September Letters	36	(8)
Freeway Entrance, Port Moody	44	(1)
Stars	45	(2)
Raccoons in Garbage	47	(2)
Envoy to a Poem Never Sent	49	(1)
The Execution of Form: A History Lesson	50	(10)
A Child's Garden of Verses	60	(3)
Algerian Woman Mourning (1997 Photo of the Year)	63	(2)
To Those I Entrusted With Memorizing My Poems	65	(2)
Requiem: Quatsino Burning	67	(1)
The New GRE	68	(2)
Morning Paper	70	(2)
Love's First Decade	72	(2)
Sequin	74	(1)
Cirque du Soleil	75	(3)
Defence of God	78	(3)
The Story	81	(4)
Acknowledgements	85

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Notes on Arrival and Departure Poems

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