Here, lie down
on top of the armoire. It is
a big one.
heather christie’s the difficult farm was out from octopus books in 2009. it is numbered to page 77, broken into 4 sections. i didn’t notice any obvious differences between the sections
topics in the book include farms, nonhuman animals, death, and a lot of other things
If a farmer wants something
to do with me there is a way for him to get it.
the poems change topic a lot; sometimes the lines seem to only connect intuitively, or maybe by implication by being in the same poem
the vocabulary was sometimes a little bit intellectual, including some words i hadn’t heard before, but not to extreme degrees
the voice felt ‘clever’ or ‘cute’ to me at times
Magnificence comes
in a small car, but we all fit.
sometimes there is a storytelling voice that reminds me a little of matthea harvey in modern life. there are characters, like a scientist and a nurse, for example, and their actions are described in the past tense
sometimes the events in the book are quirky; other times the description of a pretty normal event is quirky
At four a.m. the pharmacy was like a theme park
whose theme was Being Very Quiet.
i like the cover of the book
here is heather christle’s blog, including links to a lot of poems online
here is the poem 'acorn duly crushed,' from the book
buy the book from octopus books here, buy the book from spd here. you can also get it from amazon and other places
