Everything You Hold Dear: Poems

by Jamie Sharpe

Overview

From 2007 to 2016, Jamie Sharpe led an itinerant life, throughout British Columbia and the Yukon, in Sechelt, Prince George, Dawson, Salmon Arm, Whitehorse, Galiano, and Texada Island. When family life solidified around a sedentary existence, old scattershot suggested new targets … By way of time's amnesia, we've almost lost Sharpe entirely; only a few of his worm-eaten books remain in the musty libraries of literary perverts. The great record of Canadian literature is a list of prestigious "-ists" and "-isms" (the Realists gave way to Naturalists, replaced by Symbolists, affronted by Dadaism, bled into Surrealism, birthing the Post-Absurdist-Nouveau Roman …). Some authors are so diverse we struggle to contain them with a name. Here's hoping we can drag the ever-distinct Sharpe, against his will, without proper receptacle, into the future for a few years more. (The Associative Press) Part roman à clef, lies, composite, and compendium, Everything You Hold Dear is an ode to poetry and a posthumous work from a living writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781770415768
Publisher:	ECW Press
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	1,230,997
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jamie Sharpe is the author of three other collections of poetry: Animal Husbandry Today, Cut-up Apologetic, and Dazzle Ships. He lives in Comox, B.C.

Table of Contents

Turning the Alphabet Into a Band-Aid 9

Moved 11

Find a Strong, Tall Mast 13

Each Snowfall's Apocalypse 15

Bootstraps And Where Best to Purchase Them 17

Semaphored Hello To the Ivory Lighthouse 19

Don't Have Many Ideas 21

Young Lusters 23

The New Long Poem 25

Ye Olde Horror Story Instrumental Break, 42 Bars 27

Avalanche Kills One 29

All Leech Diet 31

On the Novel 33

On Cauntpaux 35

Assessing Literary Value 39

Patti Smith/Patty Hearst 41

Gold Things Ring 43

Pall 45

Alaskan Socialite 47

Caption 49

Marketing 51

Septuagint House 53

Academic Probation at Sunday School 55

Martingale 57

With Day-Glo Nightsticks On the Thieving Teenaged Brain 59

While Coach Plays The Back Nine at Pebble Beach 61

Pardon My Glove LP 63

Foreword 65