02580nam  22003373  450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007602400180009103700210010907200230013007200230015307200230017610000250019924500160022426000250024026300090026530000300027452004030030452010080070754503070171559100070202265000310202965000410206065000300210185600400213185600280217198000150219998000150221498100130222920180102162211.9180102s2017    xx     g|    |||| ||eng|d  a9781926743998  a19267439973 a9781926743998  bLitDistCoc16.95 7aPOE0110002bisacsh 7aPOE0050102bisacsh 7aPOE0000002bisacsh1 aNolan, E Martin4aut00aStill Point  bInvisible Publishing  a2017  a112 p.c17.8 cm x 12.1 cm  aThe poems in Still Point contrast the calm and tumult of Hurricane Katrina, the deconstruction of Detroit, the financial crisis of 2008, and the BP Gulf oil spill, weaving lyrical sequences and individual pieces into a coherent whole focused on humanity's relationship to itself and to nature. Still Point tells a story of beauty and horror, and how normalcy stubbornly persists amid history's arc.1 a"Can we still hope in an arc from one city to another, from one person to another? Can we feel the 'sub-molecular effects' that link us in song and empathy? Looking, listening, and entering into the lives of New Orleans, Detroit, and Toronto during years of stunning destruction and disconnection, Ted Nolan illuminates our consanguinity. His direct human attentiveness to second-line musicians, subway riders, and ball players has inspired remarkably well-anchored, vivid poems. Here they are, the 'living hands' of living places--I hold them out to you." -- Michael Lauchlan"When a book is this good, what to say? Without rhetoric, in intimate detail, Nolan nails it. Behind our sealed windows, converging by accident, at odds, moved only by the metaphysics of money, we hang on a hinge. 'Between what's what and what's coming.'  Will we make it? Fat chance. And yet the poems end on a sliver of hope. 'Thank you for having us,' Nolan tells the birds. It may be hello or goodbye." -- Rosemary Sullivan  aE Martin Nolan works at The Puritan and teaches at The University of Toronto. Born and raised in Detroit, he attended Loyola University New Orleans and U of T. His writing has appeared in Arc, CNQ and CV2, among others. He lives in Toronto.uhttp://www.invisiblepublishing.com/uhttp://www.litdistco.ca  aca 7aPOETRY / Canadian2bisacsh 7aPOETRY / American / General2bisacsh 7aPOETRY / General2bisacsh4 uhttp://www.invisiblepublishing.com/4 uhttp://www.litdistco.ca  b16.95zCAD  b16.95zUSD  cxxxjxxx