Coming to Grips with White Knuckles
Published in 1982 by Williams-Wallace 229 College Street, Toronto M5T 1R4, Canada ©1982 Paul Cameron Brown All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise or stored in a retrieval system without prior consent of the publisher is an infringement of the copyright law. Published with the generous assistance of The Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. ISBN 0-88795-018-3 Printed and Bound in Canada.
Many of these poems have been published in: Bogg (USA) Wyrd (USA) Germination The Antigonish Review Writers' News Manitoba Pierian Spring South Western Ontario Poetry Repository Poetic Licence Writers' Quarterly Poetry North Review (USA) Minor Offences Gut Sepia (UK) When Is A Poem (companion issue, League of Canadian Poets) Konkrete Wot Jimson Weed (USA) The Camrose Review Interior Voice The Atlanta Creative Alliance (USA) Yellow Silk (USA) Earthwise Poetry Journal (USA) Authors The Pegasus Review (USA) Toute est dangereuse, tout est necéssaire.
Paul Cameron Brown
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Credits
TABLE OF CONTENTS
KING AND JOHN STREETS
(FOR ISABELLA VACANCY CRAWFORD)
COLETTE
CHINATOWN I
TORONTO
THE DRAPER'S CLOTH
POETS ARE MAGIC BEINGS
CASHA
THE JOLLY TUPPER
VERTIGO
BEDROOM GLASS
AHOY
THE POETRY POND
WHAT BECAME OF THE SIXTIES?
SIXTIES HANGOVER
DASH INTO REALISM: ESCAPE PAD FROM THE SIXTIES
WHAT COLOUR IS LOVE?
CHAIN LETTER
SLAUGHTERHOUSE
LAVENDER
THE NECKLACE GARDEN
PILLAGE
DESIRE
PREENING
CHANCE UPON
LEAF DOCTOR
TUSSAUD'S
VULCANS
DRY GUILLOTINE
MANGROVES
PONDICHERRY
THE CLEARING THAT IS THE TREES
HUMBOLDT'S CURRENT
THE GINGHAM DREAM UTTERANCE
JUNIPER TREES
DISTEMPER
NIGHT WINDS
AMHERST ISLAND
ANCIENT OF DAYS
Constantly Deliberation
The Drunken Boat
Biography