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    Without Ceremony
    Without Ceremony
    Without Ceremony
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    Without Ceremony

    By Angela Carr

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    Centred on the everyday, and crafted without preamble or pretension, the poems in Without Ceremony are a literary pastiche— a thematic mosaic not unlike tracks on an album. Amidst a timeless cast of characters from Lucretius and Eva Hesse to Joan Mitchell and St. Augustine, Carr illuminates what it means to truly know something and questions how certain knowledge becomes valued over others. Without Ceremony spotlights the gendered division of ideas and the inherent strength of language to harm and oppress, as well as elevate. Within these pages, passing encounters become rare spectacles, and the ordinary, without ambitions of grandeur or ceremony, is celebrated, making Carr’s new collection a clarifying elixir for our time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2020
    ISBN9781771666305
    Without Ceremony
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    Angela Carr

    Angela Carr is a poet and translator. Her most recent book is Here in There. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, she currently lives in New York City.

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      Book preview

      Without Ceremony - Angela Carr

      Toronto

      FIRST EDITION

      copyright © 2020 by Angela Carr

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Without ceremony / Angela Carr.

      Names: Carr, Angela, 1976– author.

      Description: Poems.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200306715 | Canadiana (ebook) 2020030674

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      ISBN

      9781771666299 (softcover) |

      ISBN

      9781771666305 (

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      9781771666312 (

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      9781771666329 (Kindle)

      Classification:

      LCC PS8605.A7728 W58 2020 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Book*hug Press also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund.

      Logos: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Government of Canada, Ontario Creates

      Book*hug Press acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippawa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We recognize the enduring presence of many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and are grateful for the opportunity to meet and work on this territory.

      Contents

      Direction of Flight

      Iceberg Blue

      Practice before Theory

      Straight as an Arrow

      Around/Harmonically Static

      Angels

      Catalogue of Disasters

      The Music Did Demand Certain Things

      Proving Up for Honey

      Marginalia

      Going through the Motions

      Blue Arrows

      Without Ceremony

      A Morbid Occupation

      Feminine Rhyme

      Reusable Swerve

      An Opening

      Falling Arrows

      Enter on the Left

      Strange but True

      A Held Note

      The Sculptor’s House

      Eva Hesse’s Arrows

      St. Augustine’s Arrow

      Palm Reading, after Joan Mitchell’s No Rain

      Island of Broken Arrows, Incandescent, Transient

      Moving Platform

      Plot Line, after The Green Years (Os Verdes Anos)

      Relocation

      Colour Debts

      Demolition

      Genitalia

      Requiem

      Quiver

      Hardwick

      Briefing

      I was quite still for a long time

      Notes on the Poems

      About the Author

      Colophon

      Direction of Flight

      [1]

      At the fish market in Union Square we choose flounder filleted

      and decline the oysters.

      From an elderly farmer who looks like your grandfather,

      we buy six narcissi: his only product.

      They’re a pale buttery yellow, flecked with old-fashioned Monarch orange,

      a colour scheme from your grandmother’s breakfast nook, a scene that vanished in the twentieth

      century, as quickly as this perfume is subtle, yet the aroma does

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