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    Bending The Continuum
    Bending The Continuum
    Bending The Continuum
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    Bending The Continuum

    By Dane Swan

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    The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid. Form, voice and space in this collection borrow from multiple canons. Dane’s first book is equal parts Can-lit, Harlem Renaissance, the Caribbean oral tradition known as Griotism, Roddenberry, hip-hop and dark-humour.{Guernica Editions}
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781550715743
    Bending The Continuum
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    Dane Swan

    Born and raised in Bermuda to a Bermudian father and Jamaican mother, for Dane Swan, visiting family involved trips to small villages in Jamaica like Yallas and Land’s End, or to New York communities like Crown Heights in Brooklyn. The great story-tellers he heard in these communities were his only literary professors. At 17, Dane moved to Canada with his brother to further their education. Dane’s poetry can be found on CD, 12”Vinyl, MP3, in anthologies and in poetry reviews. Bending the Continuum is his first full-length collection of poetry in print.

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      Bending The Continuum - Dane Swan

      DANE SWAN

      BENDING THE CONTINUUM

       FIRST POETS SERIES 9

      GUERNICA

      Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.)

      2011  

      > 

      Contents

      I. Between Two Worlds

      The Irrelevant Age 

      Pugilist 

      Aerosol Acrylics 

      Needle/Vinyl 

      Trying to Count Electric Sheep 

      Harvey Philip Spector 

      Ticket Counter 

      Blackface 

      To-Do 

      The Largest Market in the World 

      Brothers 

      Queen of Hearts 

      Dionaea muscipula 

      Reverse 

      II. A Dozen Red Roses

      1. She asked for... 

      2. She asked... 

      3. Twelve terracotta pots... 

      4. The earth is alive... 

      5. I will be called beautiful at my death... 

      6. Now what a diss... 

      7. Do the bud and bloom... 

      8. From the melting ice cap... 

      9. Have you seen the rose shrub... 

      10. Now and then, stop and smell them... 

      11. Her sweat carries the essence of rose water... 

      12. If twelve red roses express undying love... 

      III. Uneclipsed

      Cuppa Tea 

      Coffee Time 

      Civilized Poverty 

      West Southwest 

      Broken Patois 

      Being Black 

      Parkdale Snowstorm 

      Decrescendo 

      Antiquities 

      William 

      Bored 

      Jack of Spades 

      Gravity 

      Day, Night Sky 

      On the Edge 

      From these Eyes – 

      A Good Poem 

      Notes and Acknowledgements 

      In loving memory of

      Teacher Lewis,

      Aunt Meggie,

      & Rachel Martin

      I

      BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

      The

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