The Essential Don Coles (Essential Poets) By Don Coles

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Don Coles Forests of the Medieval World PQL 1993 won the Governor General s Award for poetry Kurgan PQL 2000 won the Trillum Prize in Ontario The Essential Don Coles presents an affordable collection of the poet s very best work The Essential Don Coles Essential Poets It was okay Good poet not my style 0889843120 I had somewhat shamefully now that I think of it never known of the Canadian poet Don Coles until I stumbled upon a copy of this volume open to the poem Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper for March 13 1910 in a secondhand bookstore in Euston I bought it Such thoughtful beautiful writing such wondrous lingering upon the lives of others glimpsed in photographs paintings letters and journals Fluid and reflective as water still and moving these poems are still splashing around in my mind Consider How We All SwiftlyMy God how we all swiftly swiftly unwrap our lives running from one rummaged secret to the next like children among their birthday stuff a shout a half heard gasp here and for a while bliss somewhere else when the one thing we asked for all year is really there and practically as perfect as we knew it would be Those beckoning passes into what s ahead first words the run without a fall a bike those books a girl whose nakedness is endless in our bedand a few public stunts with results that partly please us And on we go my God howrestlessly among glimpsed profiles turning andundarkening towards us as we reach them praiseworthy the ones who ll press on with this press on so long and so often wrong hoping to provesome of the children right Marvellous isn t it 0889843120 My God how we all swiftly swiftlyunwrap our lives running froone rummaged secret to the nextlike children among their birthday stuff a shout a half heard gasp hereand for a while bliss somewhere elsewhen the one thing we asked for all yearis really there and practically as perfectas we knew it would be Those beckoning passesinto what s ahead first words the runwithout a fall a bike those booksa girl whose nakedness is endless in our bedand a few public stunts with results thatpartly please us And on we go my God howrestlessly among glimpsed profiles turning andundarkening towards us as we reach them praiseworthythe ones who ll press on with this press onso long and so often wrong hoping to provesome of the children right How We All Swiftly pg 13 Whether he rushes vainly orcrawls to weep she is there. The essential don coles kindle free Her voice knows a hundred waysto start Along his forearms perhapsher naked body surges in their last lovemaking Probablythis is worst No worstis remember she is somewheredoing new things Abandoned Lover pg 32 He laughs and a breezelifts his hair His face tilts uptowards what has happenedto his hair that it should liftand his laugh goes Whyis that happening his suddenlyserious face wants to know andwhat is happening Butall it is is a little breezelifting his hair for a few secondsa little breeze passing byon its way to oblivion as this day is on its way there tooand as that day twenty years agowas too My Son at the Seashore Age Two pg 42 A skinny old party in a too big suithas just turned the light onat a quarter past three Whatdoes he do not Where is everybody He is just realizing nobody has told himhow to be as old as this Another wayof putting it nobody has taught old agehow to enter him He s wonderingwhy has he painted himself into this roomwhich so obviously has got onlya few minutes left in it Just inchesbelow the paint s surface in that canvasover there the shadowy damp breastsof that woman remind him of something. The essential don coleszewski Was ti worth her while once to love him He remember a night fulcrum those breasts swaying close over his eyesagain and again half the night it seemscoming over like moons his mouth toowas continuously amazed He always knewdescriptions of happiness must remain illegiblebut you can stay close to it if you don t movecan t you No you can t These did though glistening from his own young mouth too an hour s immortal even if a life isn t Self Portrait at 3 15 a, The essential don coles book summary In his belly or ribs she mayany minute begin again that walktowards him wearing that dress.m. pg 50 0889843120