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Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog's first book of poetry in more than thirteen years and her patience is the reader's reward. In these spare and elegant poems -- not a word out of place, not an unnecessary syllable -- Hartog turns a perceptive eye toward the stories of seemingly ordinary things, of overlooked moments and long-closed rooms. Whether she is writing about jellyfish, the desert, awkward silences that end a relationship, struggles of creativity, or Japanese prints, her poems are astute and beautiful.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBrick Books
Release dateSep 15, 2006
ISBN9781771311380
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Diana Hartog
Diana Hartog has published three previous collections of poetry -- Polite to Bees (1992), nominated for the BC Book Prize, Candy from Strangers (1986), winner of the BC Book Prize and Matinee Light (1983), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award. She has also written a memoir, No Hippies Allowed (1994) and a novel The Photographer's Sweethearts (1996). Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, and she won second prize (poetry) in the CBC literary competition. She lives in New Denver, BC and winters in California.
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Ink Monkey - Diana Hartog
INK MONKEY
Also by Diana Hartog
Poetry
Matinee Light
Candy From Strangers
Polite To Bees
Fiction
The Photographer’s Sweethearts
INK MONKEY
POEMS
Diana Hartog
Brick Books
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Hartog, Diana
Ink monkey : poems / Diana Hartog.
Poems.
ISBN 1-894078-50-0
I. Title.
PS8565.A67155 2006 C811’.54 C2005-906802-7
Copyright © Diana Hartog, 2006
We acknowledge 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.
1894078500_0004_002Cover art: from Guérard, Henri-Charles. Sheet of 15 menus. Actual size 16.5 by 21.5 cm. 19th cent. [etching]. Courtesy of the S.P. Avery Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
The author photograph is by Michael Hartog.
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For Haven and Phoebe
Contents
I TWICE
Sleeves
Cup
Hieroglyphics
The Mother Inside
II OASIS
Oasis
Creation, 3:30 pm, the Fifth Day
The Seventh Day
Certain Knowledge
Nightclass
The Moon and Firestone
Glass
The Link between Reader and Writer
Dust Devils
Ultraviolet
Entry
Meridian
Mirage
III FALSE START
Ink Monkey
Frog Contest
The Couple in Room 12
IV JELLYFISH SUITE
Chrysaora, or Sea Nettle
Egg-Yolk
Jelly
Pleurobrachia, or Sea Gooseberry
Quince Jelly
A Moon Jelly
Notes to the Composer
Symbiosis
Little Jerks
Hot
The Psychoanalysis of Dreams
Jellyfish Costume
The Moon Jelly Room
The Deep Blue
V JAPANESE PRINTS
A detour…
Station 37—Akasaka Inn at Akasaka
Station 16—Kambara Village, Night, Winter
Station 26—Nissaka The Night-Weeping Stone
Station 17—Yui View of Mt. Fuji
Station 18—Okitsu Two Sumo Wrestlers Being Carried across a Shallow Stream
Station 49—Sakanoshita Tea Shop with View of Mt. Fudesute
Station 46—Shono Driving Rain at Shono
Station 53—Kusatsu The Shop at Kusatsu
Station 54—Otsu
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