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Some Dance

Some Dance

Sternberg, Ricardo

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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry, Book 29

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0773543473
ISBN13: 9780773543478
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 13 2014
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.30
Language: English

To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am.

Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the intersection of stories, of things made up, of things imagined, and of things lived - perhaps. Tricks played by memory, scrambling events from life with fiction, are a constant.

Ricardo Sternberg seeks a fixed point from which to understand the world, but finds no resolution save for another poem. Everything is in flux, unstable, and leads to unexpected places: a commune in the 1960s, a drunken doctor who deals in contraband, a palm reader, a classroom visited by Jesus, a dance in a darkened kitchen.

A lively collection that turns towards the commonplace, classical, and strange, Some Dance masterfully balances serious thought, big ideas, and good humour through surprising, elegant, and colloquial expressions.

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