The landing [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Sinnett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807421303321
• Autore: Sinnett Mark <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Ottawa] : , : Harbinger Poetry Series, , 1997
• ISBN: 1-283-53117-8; 9786613843623; 0-7735-8470-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (72 pages)
• Collana: Harbinger poetry series ; ; no. 4.
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: POETRY / General; Ontario Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""WOOL SWEATERS""; ""Map""; ""Wool sweater""; ""Breakwater""; ""Before what we did""; ""Late riser""; ""Over time, over space""; ""Time delay""; ""What to think I don't know""; ""Two reasons you will hate me""; ""Espresso""; ""Mother and daughter""; ""Plums""; ""CITIES""; ""Soaps""; ""Digging graves""; ""No strings""; ""The neighbours""; ""Condensations""; ""Olives at John's""; ""Hawk""; ""The wading pool""; ""On the bike""; ""Brain surgery""; ""POLAROIDS""; ""Home court advantage""; ""The more distant limbs""; ""Pictures in what the river left""; ""Checking up on Gould""""The new forest""; ""Brain""; ""East""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""A new record""; ""Gold rush""; ""With open mind""; ""A new plot""; ""Tracking in mud""; ""Prison break""; ""Doubting Thomas""; ""We rattle north""
• Sommario/riassunto: The poems in The Landing, Sinnett's first collection, reflect on a life divided in two by a move from England to Canada. Ontario's glacial landscape is the backdrop for a darkly humorous, often unsettling look at the nature of love and commitment at the end of the twentieth century. This is a time when lurid close-ups of brain surgery are beamed into the home; when the sight of a woman pulling on her wool sweater drives a man mad; when a bored lover considers digging an escape tunnel through the backyard .