LEADER 03403nam 2200529 a 450 001 9910964213703321 005 20240515203844.0 010 $a9781554909377 010 $a1554909376 035 $a(CKB)2550000001134871 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH19838120 035 $a(CEL)439162 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00227271 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3028643 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467696 035 $a(OCoLC)721194874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3028643 035 $a(Perlego)1294409 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001134871 100 $a20110511d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe anatomy of clay $epoems /$fGillian Sze 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aToronto $cMisfit$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (112 p.) 300 $aPoems. 311 08$a9781770410145 311 08$a1770410147 311 08$a9781306033282 311 08$a1306033284 327 $aFront Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- One: To Love, To Desire,To Destroy -- Fruitful -- Two: Quotidianus -- Bun -- Watching Cars -- Roses -- Huron -- The Nightgown -- We Can Drown If We Close the Doors -- The Taken Wife -- Dundas & -- Crawford -- Green Robin Hood -- After a Doctor's Appointment -- Cigarette -- Getting off at Bay Station -- Divining -- Demons in the Dark -- Floral -- Once More -- Leaving Countryside -- Route 515 -- Training -- Insomniac Conjectures -- Delilah in Seven Parts -- Elegy I -- 10/18/09 -- The RIght Tenor -- This is How You Turn the Soil -- Highway 132 -- First Hymn -- Three: Extimacy -- Wake Up -- Fiddlewood -- Moses Point, 10/08 -- 21st Ave. -- Cats -- Crossing Borders -- Fashion Biz -- Dead-Walking -- Forced Retirement -- Located -- My Psyche -- Flutter Bug -- Blood Sign #2 -- Jars of Ivy -- Anima -- Leaving Winnipeg -- Sunday the Thirteenth -- Physics -- Beginning Again -- Anxiety -- Orison -- Notes Outside Your Window -- Requiem in May -- Encasement -- Freestanding -- All Hallows -- Hatchlings -- Four -- Locust -- Notes & -- Acknowledgements -- Back Cover. 330 $aTaking off from the Promethean myth of human creation, Gillian Sze’s second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the first section, Quotidianus, offers observational poems, which recount intimate and ordinary moments often missed, overlooked, or forgotten. Sze tugs at the fabric of habit and amidst the urban mundane finds her subjects in a woman waiting for the bus, a neighbour who talks to his plants, a girl smoking after a storm. The following section, Extimacy, takes a lyrical and confessional turn, veering inwards, dealing reflexively with the materiality of inner life: the self as ingredients, the self as experiment, the self as animal and artist. The Anatomy of Clay finds exceptions in the most prosaic conditions and the ineffable distinctions between people, selves, objects, and histories. 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $aC811/.6 700 $aSze$b Gillian$f1985-$01812893 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964213703321 996 $aThe anatomy of clay$94365530 997 $aUNINA