Dust Blown Side of the Journey

Dust Blown Side of the Journey

by Eleonore Schönmaier
Dust Blown Side of the Journey

Dust Blown Side of the Journey

by Eleonore Schönmaier

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Overview

At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, Eleonore Schönmaier’s poems show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings. A woman hides her love letters in beehives, a cherry tree in full blossom is transported horizontally on a bike, and three crows tap their beaks on a metal door. A grandmother gestures how birds once flew in blue skies, public smiles are outlawed, and a shot-down jet lands in a field of wildflowers. Men from warm countries wear big coats and are falsely suspected of hiding bombs, an Indigenous man is forced by police into the trunk of a car, and a stork lands in prison under charges of espionage. In Canada, the northern village of Paradise is under evacuation orders, and in Europe Desmond Tutu steps down from a podium into a crowd of photographers. Over a Belgian lunch Frederic Rzewski talks about his piano concerto A Dog’s Life, and a Dutch dinner is shared with a young refugee boy who laughs joyously. Reflecting a childhood in the northern Canadian boreal forest, combined with an adult life lived without borders, Eleonore Schönmaier’s vivid and sensual language invites the reader to fully join in and enjoy the journey.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773550131
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 04/11/2017
Series: The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series , #38
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eleonore Schönmaier is the award-winning author of Wavelengths of Your Song. She divides her time between Canada and coastal Europe.

Table of Contents

When I Reach 3

Paradise Evacuated 5

The Other Passport 6

The Morning After 8

Risk 9

Late Night on Valentine's Day in the Silent Compartment 11

How Dangerous the 12

It's Not What One Expects 14

Mirror Orchids 15

In Love 16

Missing 17

Atlantic Coast 18

Wild 19

Summer 20

Solitude 21

Langzaam 23

In a Landscape 24

Levy Flight Patterns 26

Wingspan 28

Falco Eleonorae 30

Arrow Stork 31

Vertebrae of Humans and Art Animals 32

Birding 35

How Not to Hate a Pigeon 37

Flights 38

Fork 40

Modern 41

Musings 42

Edible Poetry of Trees 43

Carpentry 44

While Standing on Golden Rain Tree Street 45

One Tree 46

Shelter 48

Boulez Conducts Bluebeard 49

Date Warp 50

When the Crumbs Fall 51

Music 52

Michalis's Mind 53

Op. 19 No. VI 54

Swept 56

Equinox 57

Luz 59

Fred's Dog 60

Coming 62

Winter 64

Nocturnes 66

Blizzard 68

Lullaby 69

Paper Boats 71

November 73

Clasp the Shimmer 74

This 75

Sunday 76

Late Summer 77

Translucent 78

Barcelona 79

At the Café 81

Intimate 82

Vision 83

Corpuscles 85

On View 86

Breathing 88

Insomnia 90

After the Play 92

Witness 94

Love Letters 97

Skin 98

Travels 99

Winter Coat 100

Refuge 101

Wings 103

Threads 104

Food 106

Μπαλοθια 107

Dance 109

The Shore 110

Mirrors 111

We Are Alone 112

Outside 113

Song 116

Windblown 117

Outlined by Lamps 120

Acknowledgments and Notes 123

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