Bearings

by Rhonda Batchelor

Overview

The poems in Bearings are arranged in the stressful rhythm of alternation between the intense states of being in love and/or with someone or being alone. Loss refines the vision. For Rhonda Batchelor's poetry that means a gain which shows, for example, in occasional tender lyrics about experiences not governed by love and in the tang of the west coast in her poems, though setting is never the central thing. The centre is love, particularized with an art that revitalizes the ancient subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771311236
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	09/15/1985
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	577 KB

About the Author

Rhonda Batchelor has worked in and around publishing, as a writer, editor, publisher, bookseller and consultant, since 1977. From 1990 to 1997 she and her late husband, the poet Charles Lillard operated Reference West, a small literary press publishing over 100 chapbooks of poetry and short fiction by some of Canada's finest writers. Her own poetry titles include Bearings (Brick Books), Interpreting Silence and Weather Report (Beach Holme Publishers). A chapbook from Leaf Press, And roll from me like water: the erotic tanka suite, was published in the fall of 2006 and a teen novel, She Loves You, was released by Dundurn Press in 2008. Her poetry, fiction, reviews and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Rhonda has lived on Vancouver Island since 1971 and holds a BFA from The University of Victoria. She is currently the Assistant Editor of The Malahat Review.

Table of Contents

	Suite	7
	Floodplain	8
	Leaving Home	9
	I am the last born riding	10
	A Former Life	11
	Victoria Postcard	12
	Pinned On The Wall	13
	Maritime	14
	In the rooms where I wait	15
	Cyclist	16
	The Ides Of March	17
	Watching Birds	18
	Loverman	19
	The Empress's Garden/Pacific Coach Lines	20
	Trying to think between the screaming	21
	Pegasus	22
	You tell me about your old man and jesus	23
	Out here like this	24
	August 15	25
	Tailspin	26
	In your house	27
	What is it	28
	What shall we name it	29
	Housewarming	30
	"You don't love him or	31
	What were you	32
	Glen Lake	33
	Common One	35
	Huron Carol	36
	Dayliner	37
	Coming To	38
	Hormones raging I can't	39
	Yesterday the year began	40
	Stormy Weather	41
	Love At The End Of the Decade	42