LEADER 04397nam 2200469 450 001 9910160346703321 005 20170524083705.0 010 $a0-7735-4901-3 010 $a0-7735-4900-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773549005 035 $a(CKB)3710000001021043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4787304 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/7b1jgn 035 $a(DE-B1597)654562 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773549005 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001021043 100 $a20170130h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRules of the kingdom /$fJulie Paul 210 1$aMontreal & Kingston, Quebec ;$aLondon, [England] ;$aChicago, [Illinois] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (131 pages) 225 1 $aThe Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series 311 $a0-7735-4899-8 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tSettlers? Descendant Reclaims the Past -- $tSettlers? Descendant Reclaims the Past -- $tVariations of Home -- $tConfessions of a Migratory Species -- $tHighway 511, Lanark Village -- $tLanark County Love -- $tSentinel -- $tLocal Beliefs -- $tThe Rules of the Kingdom -- $tFire Loves -- $tPaint by Numbers: Lanark Fire, 1959 -- $tI Should Have Married a Fireman -- $tApril, Ottawa Valley -- $tWeight of the Word -- $tAntecedents -- $tPhoto, Post-baptism, 1969 -- $tIn Dreams, When Someone Calls My Name -- $tCat Got My Tongue -- $tAt Thirteen -- $tSurvival -- $tResurrection -- $tWeight of the Word -- $tSuffer No Fools -- $tSport -- $tThe F-word -- $tBlue Ghazal -- $tVillage Life -- $tVia Dolorosa -- $tCleavage -- $tGazing across Venous Lake -- $tNew Mother?s Song, 5 a.m. -- $tWaterslide -- $tParenting Strategy #4 -- $tYoung Building, Dusk -- $tHormones Are Coming -- $tSuede Wedge-Heeled Boots -- $tCleavage -- $tAstrology Gets You Off the Hook -- $tAfter the Paris Nightclub Attack -- $tThe World's Smallest Republic -- $tWhat We Thought about sex at Fifteen -- $tFlick You, Teenage Love -- $tCoastal Romance -- $tEarth Girl Tells All -- $tHonda CB-750 -- $tStrangers We Are Not -- $tThe World?s Smallest Republic -- $tSunday Morning Praise -- $tLeonid Love -- $tOutskirts -- $tWant(on) and On -- $tNext Time the World Will Burn -- $tRevision -- $tThe Ten Suggestions -- $tOther Versions of the Dream -- $tCheat -- $tAdvice -- $tMemento -- $tIt?s Just a Bath -- $tLiar, Lyre -- $tDiscovery Coffee Shop -- $tGod Decides to Start Again -- $tNext Time the World Will Burn -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aA lapsed religion still emits / faint signals; God, / in his satellite dish, / groans / moving on. To seek belonging, to strain against the familiar ? these are the polarities many of us live between, feeling the pull of each desire. Offering a particular history, an intimate vantage point from within the various kingdoms we inhabit, Julie Paul?s The Rules of the Kingdom is an exploration of this struggle on a personal level and a universal one. Broken into five sections, the book examines the human struggle to find meaning, comfort, and a sense of home. In ?Settlers? Descendant Reclaims the Past,? the poems consider rural life, both the specific and the collective, including a village?s destruction by fire. In ?Weight of the Word? the focus turns to family of origin, religion, and rites of passage. Poems take a familial tack again in ?Cleavage,? wherein Paul dives into the waters of motherhood, and they drift into further intimacy in ?The World?s Smallest Republic,? a series of poems about sex, love, and marriage. Finally, the poems in the fifth section, ?Next Time the World Will Burn,? explore our place in the twenty-first century and offer some idiosyncratic suggestions on how to live. At turns humorous, playful, contemplative, and coy, the poems in The Rules of the Kingdom question the vagaries of faith and family but ultimately celebrate life and love. 410 0$aHugh MacLennan poetry series. 606 $aCanadian poetry$y21st century 615 0$aCanadian poetry 676 $a811.6080971 700 $aPaul$b Julie$0940756 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160346703321 996 $aRules of the kingdom$92121480 997 $aUNINA