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A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love -- unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A lonely Indian elephant, newly arrived at the Calgary Zoo from Holland, with a penchant for moonlight escapes. Her Romeo? The wooden Maytag Man statue on Calgary's 9th Street, with his sad eyes, his oaken thighs, his aloofness. This book, the first from Jill Hartman, is a tragi-comic narrative poem about pachyderm passion. Nina Simone, Pig Latin, German opera and a chorus of Canadian poets play in the background. Incense, speculaas cookies and cheap flowers scent the air. And goddesses, myrmidons and shipwrecks appear with some frequency. With fractured, playful language, the smart and funny Painted Elephant trumpets an important new voice in Canadian poetry.

A Painted Elephant

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A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love -- unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A... Read more

    Publisher: Coach House Books
    Publication Date: 06/05/1999
    ISBN13: 9781552451175, 978-1552451175
    ISBN10: 1552451178

    Number of Pages: 106

    Fiction , Poetry

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    A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love -- unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A lonely Indian elephant, newly arrived at the Calgary Zoo from Holland, with a penchant for moonlight escapes. Her Romeo? The wooden Maytag Man statue on Calgary's 9th Street, with his sad eyes, his oaken thighs, his aloofness. This book, the first from Jill Hartman, is a tragi-comic narrative poem about pachyderm passion. Nina Simone, Pig Latin, German opera and a chorus of Canadian poets play in the background. Incense, speculaas cookies and cheap flowers scent the air. And goddesses, myrmidons and shipwrecks appear with some frequency. With fractured, playful language, the smart and funny Painted Elephant trumpets an important new voice in Canadian poetry.

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