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A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses the poet's personal vision and emphasizes the importance of living out one's potential. This emotional journey may include the necessity of leaving something, of passing through wild and dark places in the shadow self. It may also mean becoming a different person, or persons. Sometimes inner and outer landscape merge. Always there is the hope of arriving at a place of triumphant joy where real meaning is found and love of sovereign self resides. Frequently McKinney's subject is the natural world and her deep reverence for it.
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The Woman Who Drank Her Reflection - Louise McKinney
Table of Contents
The woman who drank her own reflection
Hand
Eye
Virtues of Sex
Consciousness-Raising
Whale-Watching
Wedding Rehearsal
Wedding Party
Italo-Canadiana
Off-Season Super Natural (Waterton, Alberta)
Waterfall
Unconventional Signs
Coyotes
City Dying
Nocturne
Cityscape: An Alien State of Mind
Rush Hours
Vacant Rooms
Separation Anxiety
Postures and Poses
Souvenir
Nature Lesson, 12-Mile Lake
Northern Suite
Blues Fragment
Nature Walk, New Orleans
The Harm Done
Advice to a New Mother
Entropy
Feast of Figs
A Bird in the House
Riverkeeper
Paean
The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection
Publisher Information
ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 203
Louise McKinney
GUERNICA
TORONTO – BUFFALO – BERKELEY – LANCASTER (U.K.)
2013
For my sons Carey, Jude, and Julian Miller
Contents
The One.
Hand
Eye
Virtues of Sex
Consciousness-Raising
Lines After Reading Anne Hébert’s Kamouraska
Père Lachaise Cemetery by the Michelin Guide
Whale-Watching
Wedding Rehearsal
Wedding Party
Italo-Canadiana
Off-Season Super Natural (Waterton, Alberta)
Waterfall
Unconventional Signs
Coyotes
The Last Snowfall
Dharma Bums Revisited, Vancouver
City Dying
Nocturne
Cityscape: An Alien State of Mind
Rush Hours
Vacant Rooms
Separation Anxiety
Postures and Poses
Souvenir
Nature Lesson, 12-Mile Lake
Northern Suite
The Other.
Blues Fragment
Nature Walk, New Orleans
The Harm Done
Advice to a New Mother
Pre-positions
Pronouns/Divorce
Entropy
Feast of Figs
A Bird in the House
Riverkeeper
Paean
The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT HER WORK
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart ...
– Czeslaw
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