Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Dead Man's Float
    Dead Man's Float
    Dead Man's Float
    Ebook111 pages39 minutes

    Dead Man's Float

    By Derk Wynand

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Dead Man's Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the locals politely try to hide their hilarity at Canadian pidgin Spanish. Heat, beaches, ruins -- why did we think they could distract us from domestic squabbling or the 3 a.m. dreads?

    Derk Wynand wrings wry existential meditations from firsthand experience of the Exotic -- the First World and the Third in their ritual winter dance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2002
    ISBN9781771310062
    Dead Man's Float
    Author

    Derk Wynand

    Derk Wynand was born in Bad Suderode, Germany in 1944 and has lived in Canada since 1952. The author of several works of poetry, fiction and translation, and a former editor of The Malahat Review, he teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Brick Books published Wynand’s Closer to Home in 1997.

    Read more from Derk Wynand

    Related to Dead Man's Float

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Spell

      Apr 25, 2018

      Spell
      4 min read

    • Article

      Trouble In Paradise—other Adirondack Bloodsuckers

      Apr 18, 2024

      I love that I have come back to the Adirondacks, now with a place of my own at the edge of the wilderness. I grew up and attended high school not far from here, in the then “smallest incorporated village in New York State,” Galway, about two hours fr

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Cave Of Adventure

      Jun 10, 2021

      You walk home from work through Citadel Park. This fine October afternoon is just warm enough that you are comfortable in the light cashmere cardigan and skirt you bought for exactly this kind of weather, an elegant dark green outfit that goes well w

      11 min read

    • Article

      Town & Country Notebook

      Dec 16, 2020

      1) From which language does the word ‘scampi' come? 2) The sola plant, Aeschynomene aspera, is used to make what sort of headwear? 3) Pernio or perniosis, a medical condition caused by exposure to cold, is more commonly known as what? 4) What are

      2 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      That the semi-circular canal is part of my ear,not a style of Venetian waterway arch,I learned mid-air on a Huffy.That bicycles left long out in the rain split.That prepositions are tricky.That I was made part industrious,part lazy-assed. That descri

      3 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2022

      1. Here there’s no rainy season.Sun scalds my forehead,yet the pool is empty. Beside it,a toppled table, its glass surface shattered.The asphalt is too hot for bare feet. 2. Far away: white hillocksand white dunes under a deepblue sky. Swirling winds

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2023

      1. Wine-makers say it’s the complex flavorcreated by the singular terrain of place: the kinds of minerals in the soilfiltered through the soft pulse and coil of earthworms; the curl of fog that snakesaround blushed grapes like wisps of smoke; the tas

      6 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2021

      I learned the world through the bottoms of my feet, barein the creeks of summer, stepping on pebbles, the squidgeof moss between my toes. On hot asphalt, the hop and skipover cracks, feet already toughened by bramble, dirt, the pricklyground of pine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2019

      Santo Jesus, did you have a jeweled number?Did you play spin-the-bottle in your day?What colors and configurations of glass? I imagine there were no remedies for cleft palatesbut that people loved their penned animals:brushed their fur and picked the

      4 min read

    • Article

      AUSTRALOPITHECA1 & STARMAN2

      Sep 1, 2019

      The countdown to you begyns with me, deere Starman, when I wander, dumbly, deep into a space hospittable to Hunger. Now, all’s desert. No milk in syte. Just pitifull sand, what shushes as it slydes through your hande to rejoin itself. I’d join myself

      7 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

      May 12, 2020

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Roger's PROFANISAURUS

      Nov 19, 2020

      Roger's PROFANISAURUS
      8 min read

    • Article

      Six Poems

      Feb 28, 2023

      Dear C, At first Virgil’s poem is quite dull; equivocalnames of products at The Container Store: Elfa White Medium Drawer, Mesh NarrowRolling Cart (Medium Solution), Narrow Classic Mesh Box and the number of pirouetting starseach product attained. An

      5 min read

    • Article

      Spellcheck

      Jan 1, 2019

      Whose history I do not know. I do know I’ve been e-upbraided for my fast and loose spelling of Woden, the god whose last worshipper must have slipped under the sod during the medieval period, somewhere in the 10th century—imagine those bog-soaked des

      5 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Jan 5, 2022

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      5 min read

    • Article

      Six Bestiary Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The world, is it finite? Pliny the Elderon what he saw and heard, 37 “books” toround that up, early C.E. as heproceeded to be infinite. His Naturalis. His Historia.First bestiary ever in Book 8. Land lifeand sea life and through-the-air and undergrou

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Whale Who Will Come Soon

      Sep 8, 2021

      The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water,

      8 min read

    • Article

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses

      Jun 3, 2021

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses
      4 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Feb 2, 2023

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      8 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Feb 2, 2023

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      8 min read

    • Article

      No Exit

      Apr 21, 2020

      No Exit
      6 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      May 1, 2020

      We came here to fondle the glassoctopi. Rosy crystal dragons, psychedelic phalluses in jewelry cases. Eyeglasses, butterflies.Black market rocker leather; Do ItIn Muscle Beach tees. The indecisive sea.We ate a slice of boardwalkpizza topped with anch

      1 min read

    • Article

      John Ashbery

      Mar 15, 2019

      He could understand the things at home.—Wallace Stevens, “Things of August” Scribbled on the expansive mist, the desireof many dwindles to usand our “activities,” wholesomeor otherwise. Soon it becomes apparentthat neither they nor I have any prise o

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      Jester-necked pile of ideasfattening by the cutting board.I have known the summer wall,it says slowly. The hillside facessouth into the valley.Dew on the tomato plants.Anything that grows, swarms,bunches itself against a stayand cannot stay. The vine

      4 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Oct 12, 2023

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Dead Man's Float

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Dead Man's Float - Derk Wynand

      2^book_preview_excerpt.htmlXr6^@odV#jg 63g+'}m/+rhIEdVB;DJ#zkPGVTDQX#oFg^04N8|U:iP`**`vb?:Dnf4TnK#OCf;9[\<\:ɾE{#ŕ.cbXm bj5U_-m75b#QS s)W=|םMNF'чOx>||ηFƉϿf&01xby# U@*|ZF65]80,g帑@ZS;,Rѐ0CPǽnL(BK. P54yQ7Np-R{ 5~6j ptRK40~UfvҗcU 7T ϗPg(>'r8t9d_hL|O:w%xyy'l-s|%Q%Z!rO!£OWՠth>F L}+l6À. aH{AݸnhihF2C5Zo*ٶCNc'`L ;NA-E2bJ;f`e`GHPU\QbZ9`3 h{ׄM@[rq`MƧ7he,JYh_ԝ et%n7ʾ;^?!x=3?EW,.AoV+[R>. J4%T׷\hZ٩@ ֓Z䒨Xwqfx9܇Koۜ=_ys!]k"~Sբ-9-D&{jcQvkא,@Q L o9޽l1⺧.s[v6 –~P{ YoA)ǓD)sJ9lP}I z+#7^TQi&㕧~}z xY>" 4[Iz/8ر>F|8P^[}-.(LӾ?W!HH-]1M\t|^hA_l'?yJL͛sW:-{M`j=ұ P@āZs )٩3, 4 cxԏ LẸDk߳G㦢qA8-ƮpLD#)E. 1 ̅" DarnC,9&j;ҖU3eIJoA⫧L{v)83?AX*WD&et2mhТD.s̻m6,xHXݐK$XݢVB 58bX.Ev#3m {T?(X9d N^?!GvCDL5@n;y Fx\MwbV4;ĉλ".={Sh,;:H6?ykmϡk$l(Rױ<,1N4V*(k`i bmMiglh y6 nԂ"^Pu r"e'v3hF*)H.ƍB绕 .yyo.*>B l$gj$@spi,+Q(*WBf 4ӨDZ"/@,Bn}rnD@TUue*ɇoK?,9090pXEpkeKi:QM^mmSIA(+(0v -rc*փ" V)pP
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1