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Clinic Day
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.
I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a storm
abandons slow calm.
We pass the bridge
and now a storm
has torn the sky’s edge.
— from Open Letter
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden’s second book of poetry, Clinic Day, (choreo)graphs the experiences and thoughts and feelings of three characters (The Secretary, The Surgeon, and a wanderer named – not inaptly – Blake), who perform a pas de trois of yearning and loss and occasional moments of grace. If at times the dance has a fevered quality, it is also, always, electrically alive and exquisitely shaped. In the clinic that lies at the heart of this unravelling day there is no panacea and no placebo, but there are the consolations of attending with clarity and honesty, and the healing powers of image and metaphor and wit.
“Bryden’s sublime and seamless weave of three perspectives–social, medical and mystical–on the work of a downtown hospital makes this book not so much a collection than a unified vision.”–Tanis MacDonald, The Malahat Review
“Posed minuets, where layers of dispossession erode to reveal lost foundations of interconnectedness.” –Veronica Marmoreo, Word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar
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Dimensions:
120 Pages
8.75in * 5.5in * 0.3125in
0.526lb
Published:
October 15, 2004
Country of Publication:
CA
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ISBN:
9781894078399
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Language:
eng
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