Monologue Dogs
By Méira Cook
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Méira Cook
MEIRA COOK’s first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the 2013 McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award and was a nominee for the Winnipeg Public Library’s On The Same Page competition. Her poetry won first place in the CBC Literary Awards in 2007, garnered a Manitoba Publishing Award (a “Maggie”), and has been featured in Winnipeg Transit’s “Poetry in Motion” program. Two of her poems were on the longlist for the 2013 CBC Writes contest. She won the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize in 2012, and one of her poems was on the shortlist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize. Meira was also the 2013 writer-in-residence for the Winnipeg Public Library.
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Monologue Dogs - Méira Cook
Monologue Dogs
Monologue Dogs
Méira Cook
Brick Books
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Cook, Méira, 1964–, author
Monologue dogs / Méira Cook.
Poems.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77131-358-2
I. Title.
PS8555.O567M65 2015 C11’.54 C2014-907984-2
We acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.
The author photo was taken by Robyn Shapiro.
Cover image by Natalie Waldburger.
Print design and layout by Marijke Friesen.
Brick Books
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every voice
has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as the characters who speak. Setting the lyric against street argot, archaic language against deflating or ironic feints, metaphors against declarative sentences, the elegiac against the ribald, classical or literary allusions against anachronistic references, these monologues reflect our own disordered subjectivities. In the words of Molly Peacock: Read her for a fresh, contemporary and knowing sensibility—not to mention an unforgettable sense of humour.
for my Stereo Boys
(( for Misha and Shai ))
CONTENTS
Bone Shop
The Hunger Artists
Mongrel Heart
Crooked
Bone Shop
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
My lords and ladies, gentlemen of the jury—
when you hear hoofbeats, assume horses, not zebras.
This is true in almost all parts of the world
except the African savannah, where it is safer
to assume zebras. Also eland, giraffes, herds
of this and that. In India, assume cows; in Spain,
bulls, matadors with their sun-blurred hooves.
In Tuscany, angels; in Kingdom Come, horses again,
pale quartets of Wish You Were Here.
My client sends his regrets. He is busy
falling through blank verse for all eternity, while a mere afternoon
passes its shadow over us. The sun moves from one window
of the courthouse to the next, and then it’s tea time.
One sugar or two? Perhaps a bun. Stretch
and yawn and back we go. I submit
for your perusal Exhibit A.
This is a map of the world, of God, and of everything.
Above is heaven, below is hell—
the future is to the right,