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  • Author: Zits, Paul
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with a pillowcase. Her brother, Alex, feels pleasant enough, except that his parts are made of wood, and that a bunch of his hair is electrified. And then there are the gun-shot wounds to his head and chest. With this final ailment, Margaret may have had a hand. In the winter of 1926, Margaret McPhail went on trial for the murder of Alex, and throughout, maintained her innocence. "Exhibit", more than a poetic retelling of her trial, chronicles the path to a verdict, misstep by misstep. Brother and sister become knotted aberrations, grotesqueries that are at times monstrous and at others stunning, at times sickly and at others impressive in their strength. Folded into these poems, helping to give them their current, at times strange and potent vision, are cuts from a broad variety of sources, including primary source materials, interviews, fairy tales, the history of feminist film, and more. Unique and rewarding, "Exhibit" is a masterful work of collage poetry that rests in the spaces where reality is constructed and blurred.

    Contents:
    • Front Cover; Half Title Page; Fontispiece; Full Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; EXHIBIT "A"; EXHIBIT "B"; Dwelling; Q. What did you first notice?; Ice blond; Ready camera; The rain says; Pleasant enough; Dreams; Turned outward; All bunk; Marmalade on toast; EXHIBIT "C"; Q. You thought it was a shot, didn't you? A. No, i thought it was the wind; Q. You found him on the floor?; It was matter first; A. i felt to see whether his hands were warm. i tried to keep him alive; A paisley woman; Alex reads a book; A noise with his mouth; Bride of Wind; Leaves on the ends A big lumping womanA woman, with handles; She blindfolds West; Warm summer afternoon underclothes; He colour blind?; Q. Did you ever handle the rifle?; Q. Did you have any shells for this gun in your shack?; Q. What did you do with this gun?; Covered with snow; Q. Did you do anything else to try to help him?; The spoon; Q. What did you do with his stockings?; Shop kill; Q. After that ceased did you try his heart?; The dream exhaled a gust of steam; Constable Parser found a sponge; Brothers and sisters; EXHIBIT "D"; Not her; There's this residue; A bird in a fox-fur coat Q. Miss McPhail, was there a shell in the gun when you found it?Her face telegraphed; Home on Haunted Hill; EXHIBIT "E"; Such destruction!; Q. Could you say what would happen to a man who was shot through the chest as this man apparently was?; Q. Can you say what would happen if a man were standing and shot through the temple as this man apparently was?; Q. Would he fall forward or backward?; Light exercise; The ghost; Suicide areas; A main motif; Observe the girl; A text of pink; This between-remembering-between imagining; The dog; Gravity; The part where it had been resting on the floor With the polar bearsSources; Acknowledgements; Biography; Series Page; Back Cover
    Genre:
    Canadian poetry
    Sujets: 21st century | Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: Calgary, AB, University of Calgary Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 1773850695, 1773850709, 1773850717, 9781773850696, 9781773850702, 9781773850719
    Collection(s)/Series: Read Alberta Ebooks