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    Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes
    Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes
    Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes
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    Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes

    By Jennifer LoveGrove

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    Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes by Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that will take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us. Here you will encounter a whole host of personas, both tame and wild—from humans, to foxes, moose, deer and crows, slugs, fish, beetles, mosquitos, earthworms, and more—who give voice to the things we can’t express in our daily lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2017
    ISBN9781771662871
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      Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes - Jennifer LoveGrove

      Title page: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove, published by Book Thug 2017

      first edition

      Copyright © 2017 by Jennifer LoveGrove

      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.

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. BookThug 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.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      LoveGrove, Jennifer, author

      Beautiful children with pet foxes / Jennifer LoveGrove.  

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77166-286-4 (softcover)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-287-1 (HTML)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-288-8 (PDF)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-289-5 (Kindle)  

      I. Title.

      PS8573.O8754B43 2017           C811’.6          C2016-908125-7 C2016-908126-5

      cover image by Richard Anhert

      author photograph by Sharon Harris

      Contents

      Copyright

      Incident Report: Describe the Dwelling

      Dinner Table

      Self-Portrait as a Mollusk

      The Stains I Scrubbed from the Floor

      Dream Specimen 23

      I Know My Own Limits and They Are Rigid

      Wipe Clean the Sky

      When I Was Four I Put a Tent Pole Through My Cheek

      Self-Portrait on a Tuesday

      Hypochondria

      Suspension Bridges

      Fail Another Spit Test

      Good Lighting is Important

      Incident Report: Identifying Characteristics

      Dream Specimen 62

      Brock Street

      Self Portrait as a Leaky Boat

      Seventh Floor

      Incident Report: Location

      Cranked Up

      Dream Specimen 95

      Market Research

      Orphan of Overboard

      Incident Report: Vehicle

      Art Therapy

      Self-Portrait as Sawdust

      A Window That Won’t Close

      Air and Dirt

      Every Day

      On Not Knowing How She Got Home or How Many Weeks She’d Been Gone

      Autumn Takes its Rifle for a Walk

      Dream Specimen 178

      I Always Hear Songs Playing

      Incident Report: Suspect Status

      Stretch Your Arms Overhead and Your Body Will Know There is No Threat

      Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes

      We Are Small and So We Think Small

      A Cauterizing Dawn

      Incident Report: Assets and Belongings

      Prorogation

      The Mortgage Broker Asks for My Net Income from the Previous Year

      Roofers

      Dream Specimen 227

      Incident Report: Injury Code

      Self-Portrait as a Moth Reincarnated as an Oak Tree

      Tasseography

      Homalambulophobia—Fear of Touching or Walking on Flat Surfaces

      Notes and Acknowledgements:

      About the Author

      Colophon

      Incident

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