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Book Synopsis
“My writing is a search for meaning, beauty, love, an integration of my lost parts.” From the widely praised writer comes her fourth collection of startlingly original poetry. With a singular range that inspires, this collection energizes her earlier lyrical narrative with the sass and verve of spoken word, and the slap of slam.

Table of Contents
  • At the Mic
  • The Civilization Inside My Head 1
  • The Girl with the Origami Soul 3
  • The small Big 5
  • How to Make an Angel Giggle 6
  • The Piano at the Centre of the Universe 8
  • The Reader 10
  • In Praise of the Gloomy Day 12
  • Why I Love the Accordion 13
  • Conversations 15
  • If I Were an Astronaut’s Love Child 16
  • Painting Mrs. Demerais 17
  • The Story Underneath 20
  • Death Is a Pear 22
  • Waiting 25
  • The Great House 26
  • If I Made the World 28
  • Civilization lives in the throat 30
  • Evening Street Festival 31
  • The Book of Breathings 32
  • Hypnagogia 34
  • Ode to the Mind 35
  • The Prophesy 37
  • Keepers of the Flame 39
  • Sucked So Dry 41
  • You’re Angry 43
  • The Cerebral Cathedral 45
  • Let Come 46 Teenage Girls 47
  • Persephone Omen 49
  • The Holy Places of the Earth 50
  • Love and Bone 51
  • You Kill My Joy 52
  • The Crazery of Slavery 53
  • From the Chorus Line at the Private Men’s Club 55
  • I’m a Conspiracy Theory, Google Me @ Ordinary Soul 56
  • Story of the Atom 58
  • Petal 60
  • This Hello Says Goodbye 61
  • I Poem You 63
  • To Pull the Sword from the Stone 65
  • Swearing Saved My Life 66
  • Daughter of the A Minor Scale 68
  • Nightlight 69
  • Wannabe Witch 71
  • Old Men 73
  • God Under the Thumb 75
  • Old Friends 76
  • The Bitch I Wear 78
  • The Dangerous Time 80
  • Spinster Power 82
  • Farewell to the Tin Cans 84
  • The Next Big Thing 86
  • To Those Who Edit the Exclamation Marks Out of Happiness! 88
  • The Big Ballyrama 89
  • If You Are a Poem 90
  • My Old Shirt 92
  • The Messiah, the Jets’ Hockey Arena, 1979 94
  • Respect Where It’s Due 96
  • Astonished on 8th Street 99
  • The Wild of You 100
  • Conversations with Death 101
  • You Are Story 103
  • Poet Enough 104Dissection 106
  • Lookin’ for Joy 108
  • When No One’s Listening 109
  • Acknowledgements 111
  • The Slammer’s Delight 113
  • Beth Goobie’s Bibliography 114

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    A Paperback by Beth Goobie


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      Publisher: Exile Editions
      Publication Date: 30/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781550969771, 978-1550969771
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “My writing is a search for meaning, beauty, love, an integration of my lost parts.” From the widely praised writer comes her fourth collection of startlingly original poetry. With a singular range that inspires, this collection energizes her earlier lyrical narrative with the sass and verve of spoken word, and the slap of slam.

      Table of Contents
      • At the Mic
      • The Civilization Inside My Head 1
      • The Girl with the Origami Soul 3
      • The small Big 5
      • How to Make an Angel Giggle 6
      • The Piano at the Centre of the Universe 8
      • The Reader 10
      • In Praise of the Gloomy Day 12
      • Why I Love the Accordion 13
      • Conversations 15
      • If I Were an Astronaut’s Love Child 16
      • Painting Mrs. Demerais 17
      • The Story Underneath 20
      • Death Is a Pear 22
      • Waiting 25
      • The Great House 26
      • If I Made the World 28
      • Civilization lives in the throat 30
      • Evening Street Festival 31
      • The Book of Breathings 32
      • Hypnagogia 34
      • Ode to the Mind 35
      • The Prophesy 37
      • Keepers of the Flame 39
      • Sucked So Dry 41
      • You’re Angry 43
      • The Cerebral Cathedral 45
      • Let Come 46 Teenage Girls 47
      • Persephone Omen 49
      • The Holy Places of the Earth 50
      • Love and Bone 51
      • You Kill My Joy 52
      • The Crazery of Slavery 53
      • From the Chorus Line at the Private Men’s Club 55
      • I’m a Conspiracy Theory, Google Me @ Ordinary Soul 56
      • Story of the Atom 58
      • Petal 60
      • This Hello Says Goodbye 61
      • I Poem You 63
      • To Pull the Sword from the Stone 65
      • Swearing Saved My Life 66
      • Daughter of the A Minor Scale 68
      • Nightlight 69
      • Wannabe Witch 71
      • Old Men 73
      • God Under the Thumb 75
      • Old Friends 76
      • The Bitch I Wear 78
      • The Dangerous Time 80
      • Spinster Power 82
      • Farewell to the Tin Cans 84
      • The Next Big Thing 86
      • To Those Who Edit the Exclamation Marks Out of Happiness! 88
      • The Big Ballyrama 89
      • If You Are a Poem 90
      • My Old Shirt 92
      • The Messiah, the Jets’ Hockey Arena, 1979 94
      • Respect Where It’s Due 96
      • Astonished on 8th Street 99
      • The Wild of You 100
      • Conversations with Death 101
      • You Are Story 103
      • Poet Enough 104Dissection 106
      • Lookin’ for Joy 108
      • When No One’s Listening 109
      • Acknowledgements 111
      • The Slammer’s Delight 113
      • Beth Goobie’s Bibliography 114

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