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    Memoirs of an Almost Expedition
    Memoirs of an Almost Expedition
    Memoirs of an Almost Expedition
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    Memoirs of an Almost Expedition

    By Barbara Schott

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    In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone. She also peels back the skin of relations, the intimate rub of self against self, to find both great longing and great loss. Schott marks how the heart bends to words, bends itself with words, in her poetic "novel" "Archipelago" her marvelous sequence "hymens" and in each discrete poem in this lovely book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 1999
    ISBN9781771312196
    Memoirs of an Almost Expedition
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    Barbara Schott

    Barbara Schott lives in Winnipeg where she was born and raised. She was nominated for the 1997 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and won second place in the Prairie Fire Poetry Contest that same year.

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      Memoirs of an Almost Expedition - Barbara Schott

      Memoirs of an Almost Expedition

      MEMOIRS

      OF AN ALMOST

      EXPEDITION

      BARBARA SCHOTT

      Brick Books

      CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA

      Schott, Barbara, 1960–

          Memoirs of an almost expedition

      Poems.

      ISBN I-894078-O3-9

      1. Title.

      PS8575.C4594M45 1999    C8n′.54    C99-931663-x

      PR9199.3.S36M45 1999

      Copyright © Barbara Schott, 1999.

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the

      Arts for our publishing programme. The support of the

      Ontario Arts Council is also gratefully acknowledged.

      Cover art:

      The Reactor Series, Panel 4,

          by Wanda Koop

      Brick Books

      Box 20081

      431 Boler Road

      London, Ontario

      N6K 4G6

      Canada

      www.brickbooks.ca

      ‘Forgive me for having given you a name

      to call you towards me.’

      This book is for no one

      Come, we must go deeper, with no justice and no jokes.

      Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

      Contents

      Memoirs of an Almost Expedition

      Ballad of a Good-Hearted Woman

      Hymens*

      Love & the Afterlife

      MEMOIRS

      OF AN ALMOST

      EXPEDITION

      Every journey is a return.

      Robert Kroetsch, The Missing Book of Cucumbers

      … she loves him, it alters him, she's the light of his life. What happens after that pulls at their heartstrings. And sends them home kinder, and better Canadians.

      Margaret Sweatman, Fox

      Winterkill

      was the reason you left

      the dusty green of the farm

      you were running

      from water

      the botanical gardens

      you grew in the 50 gallon drum

      of rainwater

      behind the house

      every house had one

      and went north

      into the perspiring white

      hectares of fallow ice

      where you could stand and

      look south of your shoulder

      to the subliminal treeline

      and you liked the glassy

      look, the liquid

      space where you felt

      baroque and

      residual

      You have been

      to winterkill

      and now you're haunted

      by the colour

      of your eyes

      you didn't come here

      to grow things

      your insides turning

      to glass, tongue

      sticking to the ribs

      if you leave

      if you leave it will be

      because the cold leaves tubers

      sprouting along your spine

      bruises of light

      that flower on your skin

      this isn't why you came

      to find growth rings

      in a section of your arm

      the galvanized air you exhale

      becoming just like you

      and if you had known

      that the ice too is a garden

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