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    Souwesto Home

    By James Reaney

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    The poems in Souwesto Home are fresh, youthful meditations on such diverse subjects as the Little Lakes near Stratford, Ontario, the flora of Elgin County, the Donnelly feud, lichens, a Department Store Jesus, and so on. The collection ranges widely in tone and technique, from the lyrical to the satirical, from the direct and straightforward to the linguistically playful. As ever, Reaney’s signature voice, his inimitable combination of sophistication and child-like simplicity, may be heard in every line. Like his contemporaries, P.K. Page, Margaret Avison and Colleen Thibaudeau (his wife), he has lost nothing of his poetic prowess to advancing years.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2005
    ISBN9781894078955
    Souwesto Home
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    James Reaney

    James Reaney is one of Canada's finest poets and dramatists. He is the three time winner of the Governor General's Award and the author of numerous plays and poetry collections including: The Donnellys (Beach Holme, 1983), Wacousta, The Dismissal, Bees, Selected Longer Poems (Beach Holme, 1976), Selected Shorter Poems (Beach Holme, 1975), Colours in the Dark and many others. He lives in London, Ontario, an area frequently featured in his writing.

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      Souwesto Home - James Reaney

      SOUWESTO HOME

      SOUWESTO HOME

      JAMES REANEY

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Reaney, James, 1926-

             Souwesto home / James Reaney.

      Poems.

      ISBN 1-894078-43-8

      I. Title.

      PS8535.E24S69 2005       C811’.54       C2004-906083-X

      Copyright © James Reaney

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.

      The cover images are from photographs of the farmhouse where James Reaney was born. Photographer unknown.

      The illustrations and clip art pieces are by James Reaney.

      The book is set in Minion.

      Design and layout by Alan Siu.

      Printed by Sunville Printco Inc.

      Brick Books

      431 Boler Road, Box 20081

      London, Ontario N6K 4G6

      www.brickbooks.ca

      To our two grandchildren

      Edie and Elizabeth

      Contents

      LITTLES

      Domus

      Scripsit

      Brush Strokes Decorating a Fan

      Little Lake District (Where I was Born) Poems

      BIGGERS & BIGGIES

      Elderberry Cottage

      Senex

      The Wild Flora of Elgin County

      Tell Us, Tellus

      The Fan

      The Duck

      The Ship

      Outside = Inside?

      Maps

      White Grumphies, white snow...

      The Congress Café

      Department Store Jesus

      Entire Horse

      Moses

      The Birth of a Pome

      Don Quixot de la Verismo

      Descartes

      Finger Games

      A Field of Corn

      Janitor

      Film Credits

      Lichen

      One Stone

      Lot

      Ice Cream

      Stage Door

      Home Again

      LITTLES

      Domus

      Scripsit

      The cow, me cow

      Mooed at the moon.

      These cows mooed at the moon.

      How kind of them

      To match her mood

      Get rid of this reader, I snapped.

                    Redd it away.

                    I will, he replied,

            When I have read it

      For this title,

      Care I not a tittle

      I shall-

      ow!

          Saidle

      the Puddle

          Fat

          Was my fate

          Short cuts–

             Long cuts?

      I deep

                 end,

               Said the pond

      I

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