Admission RequirementsA Globe and Mail Best Book A debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry. The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cityscape, where the reader is presented with the paradoxes of subsumed histories. With understated irony and unsettling imagery, the poems address the internal conflicts inherent in contemporary living. |
Contents
Gift Economies | 4 |
The Chinese Garden | 6 |
Application Form | 8 |
ΙΟ Permanent Status | 10 |
The Japanese Garden | 11 |
Sudden Departures | 12 |
Mourning Doves | 16 |
The Same Old Story | 17 |
Historical Reenactment | 29 |
The Quarry Garden | 31 |
Wreck Beach | 32 |
Yard Work | 33 |
Scotch Broom | 38 |
Jack Pine | 39 |
Invasive Carp | 40 |
Night Ferry | 42 |
Guiding Lights | 18 |
The Cartographer | 20 |
SelfPortrait of a Diasporic Subject | 22 |
The Canadian Exhibit | 23 |
Still Life with Fallen Fruit | 25 |
Possession | 27 |
The Stone Garden | 44 |
Another View | 45 |
Custom Design | 46 |
Still Life with Dream Interpretation | 48 |
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