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Название: Renaissance Normcore

Автор: Adèle Barclay

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежные стихи

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isbn: 9780889713611

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      Renaissance Normcore

Renaissance Normcore, by Adéle Barclay. Nightwood Editions, 2019.

      Copyright © Adèle Barclay, 2019

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      cover design & typography: Carleton Wilson

      cover artwork: Cate Webb

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      Nightwood Editions acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

       Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

      We also gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Government of Canada and from the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

      This book has been produced on 100% post-consumer recycled, ancient-forest-free paper, processed chlorine-free and printed with vegetable-based dyes.

      Printed and bound in Canada.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Renaissance normcore / Adèle Barclay.

      Names: Barclay, Adèle, author.

      Description: Poems.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190089156 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190089180 | ISBN 9780889713604 (softcover) | ISBN 9780889713611 (ebook)

      Classification: LCC PS8603.A724 R46 2019 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

      Hooray, hooray

      I’m your silver lining

      Hooray, hooray

      but now I’m gold

      —Jenny Lewis

      Nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

      —Fiona Apple

      Part One

      You Don’t Have to Choose But You Do

      Would you rather be the sun or the moon?

      Would you rather sing like Jenny Lewis

      or Fiona Apple? I gave you a box from Lithuania

      and inside it wind and rain. And beside it

      space for another box. This isn’t a nest

      but a to-do list I vaguely mention

      as if I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

      The alarm will go off and I’ll sink

      into resignation that light isn’t the ocean

      but it almost is. I’ve replaced living

      with swimming and reading Anaïs Nin.

      I like when she shuts down Henry Miller

      for correcting her English, trying to ply her

      away from her diary. I read their letters

      and imagine them both on Facebook Messenger—

      all the dick pics he’d send; her, chatting up

      several men at once and never recycling material.

      Would you rather be blood or stone?

      Would you rather receive or give a dick pic?

      Be moved or be the one doing the moving?

      Between us a storm

      and two completely different skies.

      We Are Stupid Little Animals

      when I eat dirt

      I look you in the eye

      and I see you see me

      eat dirt

      and when I say a word

      the sound waves

      touch your face

      and light up your brain

      you twitch in a way

      that says okay

      and then I say okay

      we take a breath

      and jump into a kiddie pool

      full of leaves and moss

      it smells like plastic

      and mould

      this isn’t a dream

      you say you deserve better

      as if I haven’t heard that before

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