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    Ink Monkey
    Ink Monkey
    Ink Monkey
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    Ink Monkey

    By Diana Hartog

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    Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog's first book of poetry in more than thirteen years and her patience is the reader's reward. In these spare and elegant poems -- not a word out of place, not an unnecessary syllable -- Hartog turns a perceptive eye toward the stories of seemingly ordinary things, of overlooked moments and long-closed rooms. Whether she is writing about jellyfish, the desert, awkward silences that end a relationship, struggles of creativity, or Japanese prints, her poems are astute and beautiful.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2006
    ISBN9781771311380
    Ink Monkey
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    Diana Hartog

    Diana Hartog has published three previous collections of poetry -- Polite to Bees (1992), nominated for the BC Book Prize, Candy from Strangers (1986), winner of the BC Book Prize and Matinee Light (1983), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award. She has also written a memoir, No Hippies Allowed (1994) and a novel The Photographer's Sweethearts (1996). Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, and she won second prize (poetry) in the CBC literary competition. She lives in New Denver, BC and winters in California.

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      Ink Monkey - Diana Hartog

      INK MONKEY

      Also by Diana Hartog

      Poetry

      Matinee Light

      Candy From Strangers

      Polite To Bees

      Fiction

      The Photographer’s Sweethearts

      INK MONKEY

      POEMS

      Diana Hartog

      Brick Books

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Hartog, Diana

      Ink monkey : poems / Diana Hartog.

      Poems.

      ISBN 1-894078-50-0

      I. Title.

      PS8565.A67155 2006         C811’.54         C2005-906802-7

      Copyright © Diana Hartog, 2006

      We acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.

      Cover art: from Guérard, Henri-Charles. Sheet of 15 menus. Actual size 16.5 by 21.5 cm. 19th cent. [etching]. Courtesy of the S.P. Avery Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

      The author photograph is by Michael Hartog.

      Brick Books

      Box 20081

      431 Boler Road

      London, Ontario

      N6K 4G6

      Canada

      www.brickbooks.ca

      For Haven and Phoebe

      Contents

      I       TWICE

      Sleeves

      Cup

      Hieroglyphics

      The Mother Inside

      II      OASIS

      Oasis

      Creation, 3:30 pm, the Fifth Day

      The Seventh Day

      Certain Knowledge

      Nightclass

      The Moon and Firestone

      Glass

      The Link between Reader and Writer

      Dust Devils

      Ultraviolet

      Entry

      Meridian

      Mirage

      III     FALSE START

      Ink Monkey

      Frog Contest

      The Couple in Room 12

      IV     JELLYFISH SUITE

      Chrysaora, or Sea Nettle

      Egg-Yolk Jelly

      Pleurobrachia, or Sea Gooseberry

      Quince Jelly

      A Moon Jelly

      Notes to the Composer

      Symbiosis

      Little Jerks

      Hot

      The Psychoanalysis of Dreams

      Jellyfish Costume

      The Moon Jelly Room

      The Deep Blue

      V       JAPANESE PRINTS

      A detour…

      Station 37—Akasaka Inn at Akasaka

      Station 16—Kambara Village, Night, Winter

      Station 26—Nissaka The Night-Weeping Stone

      Station 17—Yui View of Mt. Fuji

      Station 18—Okitsu Two Sumo Wrestlers Being Carried across a Shallow Stream

      Station 49—Sakanoshita Tea Shop with View of Mt. Fudesute

      Station 46—Shono Driving Rain at Shono

      Station 53—Kusatsu The Shop at Kusatsu

      Station 54—Otsu

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