Contents

The Invention of the Cradle

On First Peering up at Damien Hirst’s Virgin Mother

The Mirage

Chorus

Steam thistle wars

A Cruel and Wearisome Disposition

Gabriel Bridge South Saskatchewan River

The New Brutality

Waste Land Revisited

metaphor

a village in this country

Batoche

Did you or Did you

Reprise (Hirst again)

The Election of Elocution

Guest Professors

Walcott’s on Culture

Dub in London

On the Construction of Muslims

The Cinematographic Near East

Vegetarian

Found Poems: A Menu in Arezzo

Cribbing

The Olympic Energy

You are what

Time’s Memorial

Autoparanoia: I Biography

The Consequences of Contact

David Thompson

Pronounce / Commence

Special Attention

Of Legends and Fairy-Tales

Canadian Multiculturalism

Heisenberg, Pop Scientist

derrivas

Mapping the Negative Capability

Canadian Postmodernism

Eaton’s Effluviad