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Gutted
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Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop of the heart” – a world where needs are unfulfilled and passions unrequited (or worse) – it also manages to revel in the beauty of fragility and discover awe in the smallest things.

Depictions of alcoholism and sex contrast with scenes of contented domesticity; questions of faith stand in counterpoint to the harsher realities of pornography and violence. Lovers, friends, family, and strangers play an equal part in shaping these sharply barbed observations, fleshing out the typically unseen and unspoken dramas of both small town and urban existence.

From out of “an anarchy of conventional process” comes Evie Christie’s stunning, original observations – because despite the searing and sometimes controversial themes, this is essentially love poetry – the kind that will leave your “heart plundered, hands lifted, gutted.”
LanguageEnglish
PublisherECW Press
Release dateOct 1, 2005
ISBN9781554902606
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    Gutted - Evie Christie

    Gutted

    Evie Christie

    Gutted

    Evie Christie

    Copyright © Evie Christie, 2005

    Published by ECW Press 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario,

    Canada M4E 1E2

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press.

    LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

    Christie, Evie 1979-

    Gutted / Evie Christie.

    Poems.

    A misFit book.

    ISBN 1-55022-710-6

    1. Love poetry, Canadian. I. Title.

    PS8605.H745G88 2005       C811.6    C2005-904301-6

    Editor: Michael Holmes/a misFit book

    Cover and Text Design: Darren Holmes

    Cover photo: Evie Christie

    Author photo: Aaron Allard

    Typesetting: Mary Bowness

    Printing: Marc Vielleux Imprimeur

    This book is set in Cheltenham and Univers

    With the publication of Gutted ECW Press acknowledges the generous financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, for our publishing activites.

    DISTRIBUTION

    CANADA: Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Avenue,

    Georgetown, Ontario, L7G 5S4

    PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA

    Contents

    Come and Break My Heart

    New Year’s Day Robbery at the Keene Toronto Dominion Bank

    Straw

    I Love Alcoholics

    The Revival Tent on Highway 7

    In the Cold Months

    At the Wagon Wheel Saloon and Motel

    This is a Picture of Us

    The Bums Out Front of the Scott Mission

    Our Lady of the A & P

    Picking Up My Brother on the Way to Hastings

    Riding County Road 3

    Letters Addressed to 745 Palmerston Avenue

    I Know the Monday Night Women

    Because I Don’t Have a Muse

    Door-Buster Sale, Saturday Morning

    Greetings from Barton and Bathurst

    Moving to Doc Ford’s House

    Sweet Revenge

    Nig, Son of Debbie

    I’m Thinking About Memphis

    Slaughterhouse Sonnet

    The Properties of Loss

    There is a Place in Trois Rivières

    They’ve Gone and Sealed the Gates to Heaven

    An Honest Woman

    Your Wife

    Love and Mortgages

    Domestic Byzantium

    If Things Had Been Different

    Every Time a Lover Asks How Could This Happen?

    Eulogy Girls

    Hearing From Jennifer

    Porn Stars and Pharmaceuticals

    Things My Psychiatrist Would Say About Me

    Lady Like You

    Alphonse and the Egg

    Women of Tuesday Nights

    My Father Could Drive for Hours

    Folding Clothes

    Some of the Secrets I’ve Kept

    A List I Found in your Fannie Farmer Cookbook

    Carpenters’ Wives

    Beyond Douro County Lines

    My Best Friends’ Mothers

    July is for the Rich

    Riding with Old Irv

    At Big Ross’s in the Summertime

    I Found this Eviction Notice

    I Don’t Know, It May Just Be the Weather

    I’m Breaking My Heart

    Old Men Sitting in Dizengoff Square at Night

    Not a Love Poem

    That We Could Let the Season Fall

    Twenty-Fifth Birthday Suit

    Reckoning a Different Kind of Love

    Love Me and I’ll Love You

    Sandstorm on College Street

    Zombie Love (Haikus)

    13 More Reasons I’m Single

    Before the Cosmic Darkness of Warehouses

    Legs Up to Here

    Visiting My Village

    Gutted

    Beads and Blossoms

    Your First Affair

    God Does Not Love You Tonight

    Acknowledgements

    Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their financial assistance in writing this book.

    Aaron Allard, for your imperial leisure. Jonathan Bennett, for the countless hours of work and the mean eye. Lynn Crosbie, for your advice, poetry and otherwise. My editor, Michael Holmes, for your guidance. Nadine James and everyone at ECW for your kindness. Meaghan

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