The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

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Machine generated contents note: POEMS / Carol Shields -- Others -- A Woman We Know Who Suffers from Occasional Depression -- Advice from a Green-Thumbed Friend -- Margaret at Easter -- The Ferryman at Prince Edward County -- Some Old Friends Who Flew to England -- The New Mothers -- A Woman We Saw in an Antique Shop -- A Cynical Friend Explains -- Anne at the Symphony -- A Fiftyish Aunt -- Grandpa Who Is Eighty at the Cottage -- A Husband Thinks Out Loud -- Insomniac ig Sara -- A Member of the Bridge Club -- Michael, A Boy in Our Neighbourhood -- A Married Couple -- Child Who Is Falling Asleep -- An Old Lady We Saw -- Our Artist Friends -- Our Old Aunt Who Is Now in a Retirement Home -- A Professor We Know Who Is a Compulsive Storyteller -- Someone I Don't Like Anymore and Never Really Did -- No One's Simple, Not Even Sally -- Someone We Met Who Grew Up on a Farm -- Our Old Professor -- Someone Hurrying Home -- Someone We've Heard a Lot About -- The Stocking Man -- John -- Helen's Morning -- A Family Cycling By -- Great-Grandma -- Two Old Friends Who Arrived at Dawn -- A Wife, Forty-Five, Remembers Love -- Grandma's Things -- What Our Toronto Friends Said -- An Old Couple Who Have Loved Each Other -- A Friend of Ours Who Knits -- A Physicist We Know -- Someone We Haven't Seen in Years -- Two Little Girls Dressed as Witches -- An East Coast Friend of Ours Writes from the West -- A Wedding We Went to Once -- An Acquaintance of Ours Who Is an Obsessive Christian -- The Barman in Halifax -- The Dean's Wife -- A Friend About to Be Divorced -- A Mother We Know Who Has Many Children -- A Member of Parliament -- Intersect -- Pioneers: Southeast Ontario -- Mother -- Friend: After Surgery -- Aunt Alice Recalled -- Reading in Bed -- Woman at a Party -- Professor -- Suppertime 1950 -- Margaret, Aged Four -- Service Call -- Emily Dickinson -- Rough Riders -- Accidents -- Volkswagen -- Sister -- After the Party: I -- After the Party: II -- Radio Announcer -- Child Learning to Talk -- A Couple Take a Sunday Drive -- Letter from a Friend -- William -- Betty -- Fetus -- Our Mother's Friends -- Class in Evolution -- Couple -- Singer -- Home Movies 1962 -- Old Friend -- Long Distance -- Uncle -- Helen Lighting a Fire -- Old Men -- Friend of a Friend -- Picnic at the Lake -- Daughter -- A Couple Celebrate Their Silver Anniversary -- Someone We Saw -- Family Friend, Aged Ninety -- An Actor in the Little Theatre -- Family at the Cottage -- Poet -- Sunbathers: Canada -- January -- Boys Playing Chess -- Neighbour -- Carolers: Ontario -- Boy Waking Up -- Circles -- As for Us -- Coming to Canada -- Getting Born -- Learning to Talk -- I/Myself -- Another Birth -- The Radio -- 1940 -- Daddy -- When Grandma Died -- 1942 -- The Methodist Jesus -- The Four Seasons -- Visiting Aunt Violet -- Learning to Read -- Waking and Sleeping -- Easter -- Aunt Ada -- The End of the War -- 1945 -- Entry -- Snow -- Being Happy -- 1949 -- Vision -- Dog Days -- Away from Home -- 1954 -- Love-Age 20 -- Gifts -- Coming to Canada -- Age Twenty-Two -- "New Poems" (from Coming to Canada) -- Sunday Painter -- Sleeping -- Accident -- Believe Me -- Confession -- Remembering -- Whenever -- Voices -- Journey -- Relics -- Fortune -- Aunt Violet's Things -- The Invention of Clocks -- At the Clock Museum -- Now -- Quartz -- Calendar Notes -- Getting -- Caragana -- Spring -- Cold Storage -- Tenth Reunion -- Daylight Saving -- House -- The Class of '53 -- Thirty Years Later -- Wedding -- Holiday -- Falling Back -- Fall -- Together -- Work -- Walkers -- Season's Greetings -- Mary Swann's Poems in Swann -- pt. One Sarah Malone'y -- pt. Two Morton Jimroy -- pt. Three Rose Hindmarch -- pt. Four Frederick Cruzzi -- Lost Things -- Snow Poem Sequence (previously unpublished) -- "Time Line" Poem Sequence (previously unpublished) -- Others -- Laughter-Aged 16 -- Sunday Outing -- All Day Long -- Snapshot: Your face -- Blame -- At the Cottage -- England -- Expatriate -- Somebody -- Getting to Know -- Cliche -- The Fall -- Likeness -- Coping -- Being Sad 1949 -- The Sunday Poems (previously unpublished) -- "Untitled poems are identified by theirfirst line -- "Beside me on the plane" -- "Some people, doing the cathedrals" -- Other -- Shock -- Inside Sunday -- Archived Poems (previously unpublished) -- Learning to Write Poems -- Going to Work -- Sonnet -- Couple -- The Tea Ceremony -- Mark Twain -- Napoleon at St. Helena -- Letters -- Holiday -- April in Ottawa.
"Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career. The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously published collections and over eighty unpublished poems, ranging from the early 1970s to Shields's death in 2003. In a detailed introduction and commentary, Nora Foster Stovel contextualizes these poems against the background of Shields's life and oeuvre and the traditions of twentieth-century poetry. She demonstrates how poetry influenced and informed Shields's novels; many of the poems, which constitute miniature narratives, illuminate Shields's fiction and serve as the testing ground for metaphors she later employed in her prose works. Stovel delineates Shields's career-long interest in character and setting, gender and class, self and other, actuality and numinousness, as well as revealing her subversive feminism, which became explicit in Reta Winter's angry (unsent) letters in Unless and in the stories of poet Mary Swann and Daisy Goodwill in Swann and The Stone Diaries. The first complete collection of her poetry, this volume is essential for all readers of Carol Shields. Stovel's detailed annotations, based on research in the Carol Shields fonds at Library and Archives Canada, reveal the poems in all their depth and resonance, and the dignity and consequence they afford to ordinary people."-- Provided by publisher.

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