Collected poems of Bronwen Wallace /edited by Carolyn Smart.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Bronwen Wallace (1945-1989) was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant figure in the growth of the feminist movement. The author of five collections of poetry and a book of short fiction, most of which have been out of print for decades, Wallace worked in a range of poetic styles in a voice as intimate as a conversation between friends. Offering the full breadth of this celebrated poet's output in a single, long-awaited volume, Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace brings the text of all five published collections back into print alongside unpublished poems from earlier in her career, allowing readers to see the stylistic evolution of her poetry from its first incarnation to her last written work. In an engaging and often moving tone, the poems draw the reader in even as they document the poet honing her craft during the turbulent 1960s and '70s and reveal her fascination with the politics of the personal, the everyday concerns of ordinary people, and inequality and violence. Carolyn Smart's introduction and notes supplement the collection, along with a bibliography that catalogues the scholarly and literary responses to Wallace's work for the first time. An exhilarating reading experience, Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace celebrates the clarity, humour, righteous anger, and inclusivity of Wallace's poetry, which remains timely and original thirty years after her death."--

Cover -- Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Marrying into the Family -- Marriages -- Old Photographs -- Great Aunt -- Connecting -- The Family Saints and the Dining-Room Table -- The Maiden Aunts -- Finding My Real Ancestors -- Dark Fields -- Heredity -- Grandma Wagar's Double Bind -- Behind the Photograph -- The Kingdom of the Fathers -- Profile -- Marrying into the Family -- Rites -- Stripping Furniture -- Getting Down to It -- Country Auction Sale -- On a Country Road -- Toffee Tin, 1917 -- Family Portrait -- Renovating -- Settling Down

The House of Our Dreams -- Signs of the Former Tenant -- Moving Away from the Past -- Red Light, Green Light -- In My Mother's Favourite Story -- Stanley's Ladies Wear, circa 1952 -- Getting the Words for It -- Christmas, Grade Six -- The Heroes You Had as a Girl -- After the Dance -- That Story You Told -- Tuesday Morning -- Becoming a Generation -- Inside Out -- Toward Morning -- I Like to Believe My Life -- Like the Telephone -- Between Words -- Freeze Frame -- A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf -- Woman Sitting -- The Lost Dreams -- All That Uneasy Spring -- Between Words

Signs of the Former Tenant -- Signs of the Former Tenant II -- Isolated Incident -- Spaces -- Invasions -- The Country of Old Men -- The Edge -- Whether You Expect It or Not -- The Woman in This Poem -- The Cancer Poems -- Diagnosis -- Exploratory -- Corn-Husk Doll -- First Dream -- Second Dream -- Treatment -- Snow White -- Third Dream -- Fourth Dream -- Sorceress -- Remission -- A Stubborn Grace -- Common Magic -- The Town Where I Grew Up -- Lonely for the Country -- Place of Origin -- Distance from Harrowsmith to Tamworth -- My Son Is Learning to Invent -- Into the Midst of It

Mexican Sunsets -- Common Magic -- Charlie's Yard -- Coming Through -- Daily News -- Reminder -- Woman at the Next -- How It Will Happen -- Dreams of Rescue -- To Get to You -- Thinking with the Heart -- Like This -- Splitting It Up -- Reclaiming the City -- Blackflies -- What It Comes to Mean -- Melons at the Speed of Light -- Jeremy at Ten -- Learning from the Hands -- The Stubborn Particulars of Grace -- Appeal -- Joseph MacLeod Daffodils -- Houses -- Fast Cars -- The Watermelon Incident -- One of the Things I Did Back Then -- Gifts -- Joseph MacLeod Daffodils -- Testimonies

The Man with the Single Miracle -- Familiars -- Benediction -- Testimonies -- Food -- Anniversary -- Bones -- Intervals -- Entry -- Free Speech -- ECU: On the Job -- Short Story -- Departure -- Neighbours -- Change of Heart -- Burn-Out -- Bones -- Nearer to Prayers Than Stories -- Koko -- Seeing Is Believing -- Nightwork -- Things -- Stunts -- Ordinary Moving -- Idyll -- Lifelines -- Particulars -- Keep That Candle Burning Bright -- Keep That Candle Burning Bright: Poems for Emmylou Harris -- Dedication -- Walkin' Shoes -- Songbirds and Hurtin' Songs -- Driving -- Cowboy Angel

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