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    Testing the Elements
    Testing the Elements
    Testing the Elements
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    Testing the Elements

    By Bruce Meyer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateSep 5, 2018
    ISBN9781550964578
    Testing the Elements
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    Bruce Meyer

    Barrie’s Bruce Meyer is author of more than sixty books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, literary journalism, and literary criticism. He has had two national bestsellers, The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books (2000) and Portraits of Canadian Authors (2016).

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      Book preview

      Testing the Elements - Bruce Meyer

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      TESTING THE ELEMENTS

      BRUCE MEYER

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Meyer, Bruce, 1957-, author

      Testing the elements / Bruce Meyer.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-393-9 (pbk.)— ISBN 978-1-55096-394-6 (pdf)

      ISBN 978-1-55096-456-1 (KINDLE)— ISBN 978-1-55096-457-8 (EPUB)

      I. Title.

      PS8576.E93T47 2014 C811'.54 C2014-900182-7 / C2014-900183-5

      Cover Photograph by Sean Puckett

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

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      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2014. All rights reserved We gratefully acknowledge, for their support toward our publishing activities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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      This book is for

      Kerry, Katie, Margaret, and Carolyn

      and in memory of friend and mentor

      Seamus Heaney

      Dawn

      i.m. Seamus Heaney, August 30, 2013

      Yellow hedgerow gorse blinked and fell

      at summer’s end on a hill slope waking wet

      in dewy blessing. Sun sang in each bauble.

      Fields clasped rosaries of ancient starlight.

      It is time, sky and humbled clouds rolled on,

      for silence to learn the silence of fierce sleep,

      to learn the world’s living voice alive again

      risen from pain to life to love to live in the deep

      earthen footprints of fattened flocks grazing

      the worried slides. Words are carved on wind

      and filter boughs of father oaks phrasing

      a spell from what was said and left behind,

      never to be forgotten the way a shadow shows

      the outline of a body wherever the soul goes.

      Contents

      Prologue

      The Penguin Book of Mayan Verse

      Earth

      Forage Caps

      On the Exhumation of Neruda’s Body

      Myth

      Clean Fill

      Berczy Park

      The Remains of Bidwell

      African Methodist Episcopal Church

      Brown Shoes

      Fox in the Fallen Snow

      Water

      What’s Left of Nineveh

      Horses

      The Narrows

      Musée de Bon Chance

      Loonie

      R.M.S. Titanic

      Victoria Square

      Invisible Snowmen

      The Frogs

      Fire

      Serendipity

      A Bed in Paris

      Sunrise on the St. Lawrence

      Volta

      Campagna

      The Cayuga

      Sincere

      The Devil’s Paintbrush

      The Lovely Fallen Angels

      Air

      Prom Night

      Underwood

      The Prisoner Dreams

      The Sweetness

      Cezanne’s Card Players

      Syllabub

      A Lifetime

      The Modern American Poem

      Writing on Your Back

      The Movie Being Filmed Across the Street

      On the Judgement of Dogs

      Dreaming of Joe Weider

      In Defence of Narrators

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