Harmonics
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Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Jesse Patrick Ferguson was born and raised in Cornwall, Ontario. He holds a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Ottawa, and he currently resides in Cape Beton, Nova Scotia. He is the author of five poetry chapbooks, and his work has appeared in Grain, Arc, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Magma Poetry, Harper’s and Poetry Magazine, and he was a finalist for the 2009 CAA/BookTelevision Emerging Author Award. He is interested in folk music, and he plays several instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, violin, pennywhistle, bodhran, djembe and harmonica.
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Harmonics - Jesse Patrick Ferguson
HARMONICS
jesse patrick ferguson
HARMONICS
Logo: Freehand Books.COPYRIGHT © 2009 by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
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elements from Mama
by Jesse Ferguson
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Logo: Freehand Books.Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication
Ferguson, Jesse, 1982
harmonics / Jesse Ferguson.
poems.
ISBN 978-1-55111-960-1 (print) 978-1-4604-0018-0 (epub)
i. title.
pS8611.E738h37 2009 C811.6 C2009-901433-5
For my parents, Charles and Francine
FUNDAMENTAL TONES
LATE RAIN
SPIN OUT
VIA RAIL VALEDICTION
VOLTAGE
THE OLDEST TOOLS LAST LONGEST
FEBRUARY GHAZAL
NORVAL
DIRGE
IN THE SMELTER’S VALLEY
OVERFLOW
UNLOCKING THE WORD-HOARD
THE PENDULUM’S SWING
THAT OTHER ANNIVERSARY
PANGAEA
CHAINSAW
OVATION
THE NOONDAY DEMON
SUMMER POEM
ROOM FOR WOUNDS
CARILLON
SATIE’S GYMNOPÉDIES
CAT SCRATCH FEVER
ANYWHERE, ONTARIO
A VINDICATION OF THE FLIGHTS OF SEAGULLS
FLESHBONE CATAPULT
USUAL BLUE
AS YOU LIVED
RIPARIAN ZONE
PILLOW TALK
THE BACH SEAT
HALIFAX
DEVIL’S MUSIC
CEASEFIRE
RESIDENCY
IN ITS PLACE
TAXONOMY AND FRUIT
PRE-OCEAN
MAMA (VISUAL POEM)
OVERTONES
POLYPHONY
TRANS-CANADA EAST
QUITE A PICKLE
CAPPUCCINOS FOR THE PLANET
THE HAMMER AND ITS ARM
DURING WIND AND SNOW
SHAMAN TRAVELLER TO OTHER WORLDS FOR BLESSINGS
IN MEMORIAM CORY GADBOIS (1982-2007)
BREAKERS
SAID THE RIVER TO THE FLOODPLAIN
EASTERN ONTARIO PASTORAL
THE LONG WAIT
CATALOGUE OF PERENNIALS
INFRASTRUCTURE
DIPSTICK DIPTYCH
WORK
WHITE CHINA
HEX
TO DO:
MONOLOGUE
EMILY CARR
APHASIA
THE COMPARTMENTALIST
FALLOUT AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
PIBROCH
FOR THE GIRL WALKING PAST TABARET HALL
FOR SEYMOUR MAYNE
HAWTHORN
SICK SOUNDS
DR. PRUDEFLAY, OR PURDYESQUE
HALIFAX: DECEMBER 1917
GREASY SPOON TRIOLET
GERRY O'NEILL'S ARM
LUXURY SEDANS
UN
IN THE WINGS
POST-OCEAN
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Fundamental Tones
LATE RAIN
SPIN OUT
VIA RAIL VALEDICTION
VOLTAGE
THE OLDEST TOOLS LAST LONGEST
FEBRUARY GHAZAL
NORVAL
DIRGE
IN THE SMELTER’S VALLEY
OVERFLOW
UNLOCKING THE WORD-HOARD
THE PENDULUM’S SWING
THAT OTHER ANNIVERSARY
PANGAEA
CHAINSAW
OVATION
THE NOONDAY DEMON
SUMMER POEM
ROOM FOR WOUNDS
CARILLON
SATIE’S GYMNOPÉDIES
CAT SCRATCH FEVER
ANYWHERE, ONTARIO
A VINDICATION OF THE FLIGHTS OF SEAGULLS
FLESHBONE CATAPULT
USUAL BLUE
AS YOU LIVED
RIPARIAN ZONE
PILLOW TALK
THE BACH SEAT
HALIFAX
DEVIL’S MUSIC
CEASEFIRE
RESIDENCY
IN ITS PLACE
TAXONOMY AND FRUIT
PRE-OCEAN
OVERTONES
POLYPHONY
TRANS-CANADA EAST
QUITE A PICKLE
CAPPUCCINOS FOR THE PLANET
THE HAMMER AND ITS ARM
DURING WIND AND SNOW
SHAMAN