Title Bitter in the belly / John Emil Vincent

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series The Hugh MacLennan poetry series Hugh MacLennan poetry series. Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- At the temple -- Young man and sailor -- Near nothing -- False etymology in a statue garden -- Idol -- Nay, He Hath Need of Naught! He Is a Wise Man! -- * -- Raised far from rivers -- Under his window -- Abandoned warehouse in the afternoon -- Aqueduct -- Reverse Translation -- Clear cut -- The Closed Eyes of the Ravished -- That They May Uphold Him Horizontally -- The Island of Misfit Toys -- Trick -- Ulcer -- The evening -- Enough Hast Thou Slept! -- Saint Anthony -- Bronze Age -- Story -- Weed -- The Fierceness of Pleasure -- Una Chupacabrita The Whole Firmament That Turned Even as We Turned -- In the art house -- Job -- Positive -- In the shadow, in the house -- Tent -- Anger -- Thought experiment -- Gestures -- First snow -- Specialty Fish -- Jonah, missionary in spite of himself -- Jonah, displeased with God for sparing Nineveh -- At your door -- Your essay on black boxes -- Singeth Lovewords -- Fact -- Thick pronoun -- Kafkaesque -- Honey in the mouth -- Book of Jonah -- Kafka on the beach -- Yom Kippur -- Acknowledgments Summary "Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light - what there is of light, when the light is on. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom - Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that's he's home."-- Provided by publisher Notes Poems Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2021) Subject Suicide -- Poetry Tragedy -- Poetry Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry Grief -- Poetry POETRY / General. Grief Loss (Psychology) Suicide Tragedy Genre/Form Poetry Form Electronic book ISBN 9780228010319 0228010314 9780228010326 0228010322

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