Nice Place To Visit

Sly Gilbert

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Ecw Press
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554908936
• Langue: English

Extrait

A NICE VISIT PLA CE TO

poems

SKY GILBERT

A Nice PlAce to visit

SKY GILBERT

Copyright © Sky Gilbert, 2009

Published by ecw press , 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200 , Toronto, Ontario, Canada m4e 1e2 416.694.3348 /[e-mail]

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ecw press .

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Gilbert, Sky A nice place to visit / Sky Gilbert.

"A misFit book". isbn 978-1-55022-893-9

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ps8563.i4743n43 2009 c813'.54 c2009-902547-7

Editor for the press: Michael Holmes / a misFit book Cover design: David Gee Author photo: Nicola Betts Type: Mary Bowness Printing: Coach House1 2 3 4 5

The publication ofA Nice Place to Visithas been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested$20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, and by the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp).

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C o n t e n t s

Don’t Sleep with Anyone Who Three Approaches to Robert DeParis The Thief The Drama Queen The Old Friend Looking on the Bright Side Ian and Flowers Ode on My Mangina Some Very Funny Things That Might Happen Humouresque I Don’t Want to Go to School All Banks Are Death Velly Solly The Kiss at the Door Auntie Louise I Am Not the Kind Self-Storage Ode to John Wildman You Took the Books Some Little Known Truths AboutSouth Pacific Agoraphobic Poem New York Diary

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Ravishing Why? Pardon My Aporia The One I Chose Marjorie Morningstar The Damned Don’t Cry! Costa Rica Good Question Being With You What Do We Do About Love? On the Way Back from Connecticut It’s Something I Learned a Long Time Ago Playing Chess with Dominic Parker Posey Ian’s Getting Drunk Ode to Ian To the Boy Who Sits by the Pool Old Man Key West Regret Laura’s Dream

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Why I Would Rather Chat with a Hamilton Crack Whore than an Old Rich Toronto Lady with a Lap Dog Poem for Keith’s Birthday Photos for My Family: The Captions I Never Sent Romance The Performance Queer Manifesto

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