A Generous Latitude: Poems

Lenea Grace’s debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur’s hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, “I’m not smoking and it’s not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979.” A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and “strips the Atlantic bare.”

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A Generous Latitude: Poems

Lenea Grace’s debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur’s hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, “I’m not smoking and it’s not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979.” A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and “strips the Atlantic bare.”

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A Generous Latitude: Poems

A Generous Latitude: Poems

by Lenea Grace
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A Generous Latitude: Poems

by Lenea Grace

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Lenea Grace’s debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur’s hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, “I’m not smoking and it’s not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979.” A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and “strips the Atlantic bare.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773051888
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication date: 04/17/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 88
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lenea Grace’s work has appeared in Best New Poets, The Fiddlehead, Washington Square Review, CV2, Riddle Fence, Grain, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of McGill University, University of Maine at Presque Isle, and The New School. Lenea is a founding editor of The Mackinac poetry magazine. She grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, spending her summers at Long Lake and John Island in northern Ontario. She lives in Gibsons, British Columbia.

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Montreal Poem; or, Our Hearts Are Not Like Wheels; or, Les Habitants

If I were to write

a Montreal poem,

or a poem about Montreal,

I would not mention the mountain, or

Saint-Viateur, or

fire escape couture, the Jew belle-lettrists,

the week we each ran into Leonard Cohen,

buying plums at the depanneur,

or reclining on a bench

in Parc du Portugal.

Grey suits for everyone.

I would not ask

you to remember Jeanne-Mance

or Maisonneuve, the parties

the parties,

the Labatt 50 and tequila, late night promenades

in empty rooms with August windows. Please, no slow dancing

in the street.

No sliding down lamp-

posts. No more McGarrigles. No,

our hearts are not like wheels,

are they?

I would not say this now, dear.

I would not start this poem again.

Table of Contents

Proofs 11

Pressure Drop 13

Faceblue 15

The Cock-n-Bull 17

Boat Song 18

Our Landscape 20

Door Frame, Late Morning 21

Flat Tire in Vermilion Bay 22

To Pogamasing 24

The Brash Tides 25

Tracing One Warm Line 26

Calgary, 1981 28

Hitchhikers 29

Larry Bird Mows the Lawn 31

Montreal Poem; or, Our Hearts Are Not Like Wheels; or, Les Habitants 32

Rib 34

Mercy Fuck 35

John Island I 36

TU&Cyrund;BO 38

A Man I Never Loved 40

The Why and the How 42

Geography 43

John Island II 44

On Yonge Street 46

Highway 17 47

Auld Lang Syne, etc. 49

Eulogy 51

In Sechelt 52

Yukon River 53

Mr. Peanut 55

Sharp Flesh 57

Taxidermy 58

Organ Donor 60

I Remember the Words 61

Carpentry 63

Sudbury, Ont. 64

Grace Escapes 65

Germans Love David Hasselhoff 67

Blond Satan 68

Bound 69

Ice Pick Lobotomy 70

Because 71

Barber 72

Wisdom Teeth 73

Bride and Wolf 74

Orca Fart 75

Conductor 76

Just Grit 77

The Free 78

On the Derby Day 79

The Load Out/Stay 81

For Boris 82

Influence 83

Acknowledgements 85

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