There Are Not Enough Sad Songs

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-77212-452-1
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 110 g

Reihe: Robert Kroetsch Series

There is beauty
in the teacup
like dresses
requiring crinoline
or beaded purses
too small to carry
anything but anger.
— from “Inheritance”

Marita Dachsel’s third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing those both close and distant. In the tradition of Karen Solie and Suzanne Buffam, and with a touch of Canadian Gothic, Dachsel’s poetic skills unfold in a variety of brief and expansive forms. Authentic and controlled, full of complexity and disorder, her poems offer release despite their painful twists and topics. Readers across generations will find kinship in Dachsel’s grief-fuelled and vulnerable words.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dachsel, Marita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

1 after the funeral
2 spring
3 sizzle
4 illusion
5 vermin
6 inheritance
7 our home needs to be painted
8 self portrait
9 alberta avenue
10 the impossibility of fireflies
11 klondike
12 may is an uneasy month
13 returning from seeing the man with the beard of bees
14 our guilt stays with us
15 good to keep busy
16 neighbourly
17 he always gave us the creeps
18 my money’s on the magpie
19 my mum’s grandmother had a terrible accident
when she was a young mother
20 grown up
21 main & broadway
22 hold on
23 your light, your light
24 a sonnet for middle-age mothers
25 solstice
26 gentle infestation
27 mothering
28 cavity
29 clover point
30 beached
31 epithalamium
32 check for spots
34 yes, let’s
35 the forties
36 unfasten
37 these days, those days
38 accumulate
39 now is the season of open windows
40 shuswap july
41 vanish
42 plato island
43 always with the fucking fish
44 we both wore red lipstick
45 obligatory road trip
46 swing therapy
47 before serious
49 even bleach can’t remove the smell
50 for phillis wheatley
51 the birth of father yod
52 roots
53 keepsake
54 last suppers
55 arbutus
56 there are not enough sad songs
57 down under
58 terminal
59 new year’s day, 2015
60 child

63 Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Dachsel, Marita
Marita Dachsel is the author of Glossolalia and All Things Said & Done. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry, and the ReLit Award. Her play Initiation Trilogy was nominated for both a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script and the Critics’ Choice Innovation Award. She lives with her family on Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia.