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Souwesto Home
By James Reaney
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The poems in Souwesto Home are fresh, youthful meditations on such diverse subjects as the Little Lakes near Stratford, Ontario, the flora of Elgin County, the Donnelly feud, lichens, a Department Store Jesus, and so on. The collection ranges widely in tone and technique, from the lyrical to the satirical, from the direct and straightforward to the linguistically playful. As ever, Reaney’s signature voice, his inimitable combination of sophistication and child-like simplicity, may be heard in every line. Like his contemporaries, P.K. Page, Margaret Avison and Colleen Thibaudeau (his wife), he has lost nothing of his poetic prowess to advancing years.
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James Reaney
James Reaney is one of Canada's finest poets and dramatists. He is the three time winner of the Governor General's Award and the author of numerous plays and poetry collections including: The Donnellys (Beach Holme, 1983), Wacousta, The Dismissal, Bees, Selected Longer Poems (Beach Holme, 1976), Selected Shorter Poems (Beach Holme, 1975), Colours in the Dark and many others. He lives in London, Ontario, an area frequently featured in his writing.
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Souwesto Home - James Reaney
SOUWESTO HOME
SOUWESTO HOME
JAMES REANEY
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Reaney, James, 1926-
Souwesto home / James Reaney.
Poems.
ISBN 1-894078-43-8
I. Title.
PS8535.E24S69 2005 C811’.54 C2004-906083-X
Copyright © James Reaney
We acknowledge the support of 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.
The cover images are from photographs of the farmhouse where James Reaney was born. Photographer unknown.
The illustrations and clip art pieces are by James Reaney.
The book is set in Minion.
Design and layout by Alan Siu.
Printed by Sunville Printco Inc.
Brick Books
431 Boler Road, Box 20081
London, Ontario N6K 4G6
www.brickbooks.ca
To our two grandchildren
Edie and Elizabeth
Contents
LITTLES
Domus
Scripsit
Brush Strokes Decorating a Fan
Little Lake District (Where I was Born) Poems
BIGGERS & BIGGIES
Elderberry Cottage
Senex
The Wild Flora of Elgin County
Tell Us, Tellus
The Fan
The Duck
The Ship
Outside = Inside?
Maps
White Grumphies, white snow...
The Congress Café
Department Store Jesus
Entire Horse
Moses
The Birth of a Pome
Don Quixot de la Verismo
Descartes
Finger Games
A Field of Corn
Janitor
Film Credits
Lichen
One Stone
Lot
Ice Cream
Stage Door
Home Again
LITTLES
Domus
Scripsit
The cow, me cow
Mooed at the moon.
These cows mooed at the moon.
How kind of them
To match her mood
Get rid of this reader, I snapped.
Redd it away.
I will, he replied,
When I have read it
For this title,
Care I not a tittle
I shall-
ow!
Saidle
the Puddle
Fat
Was my fate
Short cuts–
Long cuts?
I deep
end,
Said the pond
I
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