new from above/ground press: The Doxologies, by Gil McElroy

The Doxologies
Gil McElroy
$4

Some sort
of afternoon. The heat
will soon be
at home
in its touches. There will be
balanced ones, & other ones
resolved in flames, & then
the sky we will be awaiting like this
will become
really rather
dear.

Do not go
away. Do not go
heavy, tired
of something in
this moment that’s going one mile west
of somewhere one mile east. Simple
attentions call, you know, a
garden of days here
in the long now.

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published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

and don't forget 2015 subscriptions; still available!

Poems from The Doxologies appeared in Touch the Donkey #1 and #3, and online. See a recent interview with him on the series on the Touch the Donkey blog.

Gil McElroy is a poet, independent curator, and visual arts critic. He is the author of four books of poetry, a non-fiction memoir, and a collection of essays on visual art. In 2013, he was co-winner of the bpNichol Chapbook Award. McElroy currently lives in Colborne, Ontario.

This is Gil McElroy’s sixth above/ground press chapbook, after “Echolocations” (½ of STANZAS #5, April 1995), Some Julian Days (March, 1999) “Meteor Showers” (STANZAS #31, 2002), (The Work of Art) In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (November, 2005) and Twentieth (February, 2013).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com