selected poems of David W. McFadden ; edited by Stuart Ross.
Toronto :
Insomniac Press,
2007.
328 pages ;
23 cm
Desire Blossoms -- Travellin' Man -- American Squirrel -- Nature -- After Lullaby -- Pigeons -- Three on a Tree -- Number -- Morning Moon -- My Brother's Poetry -- Eckankar -- Little Spots of Grease -- Eight Inches of Snow -- On the Road Again -- Country Hotel in the Niagara Peninsula -- Death of a Man Who Owned a Swimming Pool -- Spill -- When I Am Dead -- Beverly Report -- Margaret Hollingsworth's Typewriter -- Baseball Loneliness -- Lennox Island -- Slippery Wig -- This Poem Has a Good Title -- My Criminal Record -- Mandala Dream -- Poem for Jennifer to Read Many Years from Now -- Rockies -- Moment in the Life of the Members of the Graduating Class of Arnprior High School, 1976 -- Lion in the Road -- For Dwight Eisenhower on His Death -- Death of Greg Curnoe -- Dying Metaphors -- Love's Golden Splendor -- 1940 -- Searchlight -- Kitsilano Beach on a May Evening -- Orchard Suite -- Strange Language -- Frank O'Hara -- Visions of Old Hamilton -- My Mother in History -- Parenthood -- Child Molesters -- Early Autumn Guitar -- Representative of Violence -- My Body Was Eaten by Dogs -- Portable Nietzsche -- English Sheep Dog -- Standing Invitation -- Cooling Spell -- Father Flirts with His Daughter -- Crazy Bus -- Sad Old Notebooks -- Golden Treasury of Knowledge -- Stormy January -- Armadillo -- Unchained Melody -- Bathing in Diabolic Acid -- Cup of Tea with Issa -- Seduction of Queen Elizabeth II -- Tibetan Monologue -- Secrets of the Universe -- Anticipating a Trip to Ontario -- Meaningless Midnight Musings -- How to Become Part of Nature -- Dead Hippopotamus -- Wound -- Unexpected Cheque for $86 -- Thin Gypsy Woman -- Pop -- Inventory of My Possessions -- Hour's Restless Sleep -- Jewel Box -- After Thomas Hardy's "Afterwards" -- Jar of Butterflies -- Rat -- Eskimo Who Lacked Perfection -- In Honour of the Woody Guthrie Memorial -- Beer and Pizza -- Smell of Water -- Box of Three -- Pictograms by Starlight -- Spoiled Brat -- Very Calm Demeanour -- What Does It Mean ... -- Walter's Moustache -- Spirits Bay -- Angel -- Jane and Jean -- Thirty-Four Lines about Horses -- Flying Over Indiana -- Sky and I -- Over at the Undermount -- It's Unbelievable -- My Own True Nature -- Sentimental Introduction -- Iguana Within -- After Reading Shiki's Poem about the Dead Dog Floating Down the River -- Letter to My Father -- Darryl & the Moose -- Four Experiments -- Peace -- Monkey on My Back -- My Words/Hamilton -- It Would Be Nice to Go to Heaven with You -- Elephants -- Moonkat -- Last Chance to Hit Balls (Six Tanka and Six Haiku) -- Titles I Have Heard of but Not Read -- Greaseball -- Sex with a Sixteen Year Old -- Perceptual Error -- Invisible Orchards -- Last Fishing with Jack -- No Matter -- Fingers & Toes -- Pictures in Playboy -- Form of Passion -- Inchworm -- Still Life with Fruit -- Sense of Danger -- Another Mouth -- Slow Black Dog -- New York -- Pink -- Daily Scream -- Holy Days in a Lake Huron Resort Town -- Mickey Mouse -- Big M.