Rules of the kingdom / / Julie Paul

• Autore: Paul Julie
• Pubblicazione: Montreal & Kingston, Quebec ; ; London, [England] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 pages)
• Disciplina: 811.6080971
• Soggetto topico: Canadian poetry - 21st century
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Settlers’ Descendant Reclaims the Past -- Settlers’ Descendant Reclaims the Past -- Variations of Home -- Confessions of a Migratory Species -- Highway 511, Lanark Village -- Lanark County Love -- Sentinel -- Local Beliefs -- The Rules of the Kingdom -- Fire Loves -- Paint by Numbers: Lanark Fire, 1959 -- I Should Have Married a Fireman -- April, Ottawa Valley -- Weight of the Word -- Antecedents -- Photo, Post-baptism, 1969 -- In Dreams, When Someone Calls My Name -- Cat Got My Tongue -- At Thirteen -- Survival -- Resurrection -- Weight of the Word -- Suffer No Fools -- Sport -- The F-word -- Blue Ghazal -- Village Life -- Via Dolorosa -- Cleavage -- Gazing across Venous Lake -- New Mother’s Song, 5 a.m. -- Waterslide -- Parenting Strategy #4 -- Young Building, Dusk -- Hormones Are Coming -- Suede Wedge-Heeled Boots -- Cleavage -- Astrology Gets You Off the Hook -- After the Paris Nightclub Attack -- The World's Smallest Republic -- What We Thought about sex at Fifteen -- Flick You, Teenage Love -- Coastal Romance -- Earth Girl Tells All -- Honda CB-750 -- Strangers We Are Not -- The World’s Smallest Republic -- Sunday Morning Praise -- Leonid Love -- Outskirts -- Want(on) and On -- Next Time the World Will Burn -- Revision -- The Ten Suggestions -- Other Versions of the Dream -- Cheat -- Advice -- Memento -- It’s Just a Bath -- Liar, Lyre -- Discovery Coffee Shop -- God Decides to Start Again -- Next Time the World Will Burn -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rules of the kingdom
• ISBN: 0-7735-4901-3; 0-7735-4900-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160346703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.