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    The World is Mostly Sky
    The World is Mostly Sky
    The World is Mostly Sky
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    The World is Mostly Sky

    By Chadwick Ginther

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    In this shining debut, identity and community converge in poems for a modern generation. Beginning with the open prairie skies of her youth, Sarah Ens maps an emergence into millennial womanhood, questioning feminine expectations and examining heartache and disembodiment during an age of personal and planetary upheaval. The World Is Mostly Sky looks backwards and inwards to find respite in stars, warm earth, and deep waters while rejoicing in the sacred bonds of sisterhood that offer the courage to meet our uncertain horizon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurnstone Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2020
    ISBN9780888017062
    The World is Mostly Sky
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    Chadwick Ginther

    Chadwick Ginther is the Prix Aurora Award nominated author of Graveyard Mind and the Thunder Road Trilogy. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, his story “All Cats Go to Valhalla” won the 2021 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Story. He lives and writes in Winnipeg, Canada, spinning sagas set in the wild spaces of Canada’s western wilderness where surely monsters must exist.

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      The World is Mostly Sky - Chadwick Ginther

      Sky

      The World Is Mostly Sky

      Sarah Ens

      The World Is Mostly Sky

      copyright © Sarah Ens 2020

      Turnstone Press

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      206-100 Arthur Street

      Winnipeg, MB

      R3B 1H3 Canada

      www.TurnstonePress.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic or mechanical—without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any request to photocopy any part of this book shall be directed in writing to Access Copyright, Toronto.

      Turnstone Press gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of Manitoba through the Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Book Publisher Marketing Assistance Program.

      The epigraph on page 52 is from ‘’The Glass Essay’’ by Anne Carson, from GLASS, IRONY, AND GOD, copyright ©1995 by Anne Carson. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

      Cover design: Melissa McIvor

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: The world is mostly sky / Sarah Ens.

      Names: Ens, Sarah, 1992- author.

      Description: Poems.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190233184 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190233192 | ISBN 9780888017055 (softcover) | ISBN 9780888017062 (EPUB) | ISBN 9780888017079 (Kindle) | ISBN 9780888017086 (PDF) Classification: LCC PS8609.N72 W67 2020 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

      for my sisters

      a boat is not

      the whole world

      (the world

      is mostly

      sky)

      Contents

      By the Skin

      Silos

      Always Trees with the Almighty

      World We Rise

      Floriculture

      Choreography of Bounding

      Straddled

      The Sacredness of Sleepovers

      Age Apocalypse

      Each September We Went to See the Geese

      In Dusk

      Silos

      Of Earth Crumbling

      I Promised No More Poems About the Moon

      Wuthering: A Comprehensive Guide

      Early February & He Built Her a Nest

      Cats, Definitely

      A Scary Time for Men

      Found Offering

      Ocean Organ

      A Boat Is Not the Whole World

      When Cohen Dies

      Os Justi

      Wuthering: A Comprehensive Guide

      You Could Blow Up the Whole World

      At Least Light

      Powerful Millennials on the California Freeway

      Vermiculture

      Something Good

      Orbit

      This Bridge Symbolizes Hope

      Molly Learns Her Astrology

      Communion

      Burrowing

      Broken Seals All Summer

      I, Too, Am the Mountaintop

      Eclipse from Mont-Royal

      Vitreous

      Resurrection Except as Metaphor

      Astronomical

      Powerful Millennials on the California Freeway

      Grainy to Froth; Red to Burst

      Notes on the Poems

      Acknowledgements

      The World Is Mostly Sky

      By the Skin

      I have pulled out my own teeth

      called them tenderly as disciples each

      the hollow hurt of bone

      I have given them to certain friends & family

      in square white envelopes here have these things

      I grew in my sleep here take

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