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Poetry. FUR(L) PARACHUTE claims as its surrogate the Old English poem "Wulf and Eadwacer." Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman's lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of FUR(L) PARACHUTE is further disrupted by such texts as instruct
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Paperback, 108 pages
Published
May 20th 2013
by Book Thug
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wulf my wulf
I used to say
in your hairy ear
with your six breasts
lines up against my thorax
soft as a dove against the unstoppable
blood-orange onset
of mourning
even then, the bones
knit themselves into iron in our chests
but there was
tenderness
* * *
abandoned between sweet coltsfoot
and horsetail
field-notes half written
violence of torn button
the plunge then the rip
recovered late amid broad-leaf litter
the phytologist's end-game
as sad-ribbed as snow
falling through an ecstasy of wools
I used to say
in your hairy ear
with your six breasts
lines up against my thorax
soft as a dove against the unstoppable
blood-orange onset
of mourning
even then, the bones
knit themselves into iron in our chests
but there was
tenderness
- pg. 19
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abandoned between sweet coltsfoot
and horsetail
field-notes half written
violence of torn button
the plunge then the rip
recovered late amid broad-leaf litter
the phytologist's end-game
as sad-ribbed as snow
falling through an ecstasy of wools
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Didn't understand or connect with the writing in this poetry collection.
But, I found it very fun that it was based on the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer, which is very mysterious and strange ! Gonna look into that poem now for sure. ...more
But, I found it very fun that it was based on the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer, which is very mysterious and strange ! Gonna look into that poem now for sure. ...more
Aug 09, 2013
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Please check out my interview with Shannon Maguire as we discuss her new collection of poetry, fur(l) parachute (BookThug, 2013). Read the interview now on my TTQ Blog. http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot.c...
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