Tribeca: Twentieth Anniversary
Edition
by Joe
Blades
with a new afterword by the author
$5
in tompkins square
no
one bothers us
with
our bag-wrapped vodka
here
in the night
in
tompkins square
even
though we don’t sit
near
trashcan fires
or
have cardboard
bedding
under plastic
we
sit pulling grain
watching
cops on avenue a
behind
our backs
an
open-columned shrine
faith
· hope · charity · compassion
carved
in lintel stones
we
leave the bottle
empty
in its paper bag
published in
Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2017
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Tribeca was originally produced
through above/ground press in an edition of 300 copies, May 1997. It
subsequently appeared in the anthology Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Fredericton NB: Broken Jaw Press
/ cauldron books, 2003), edited by rob mclennan.
Joe Blades is currently is a PhD Interdisciplinary
Studies student at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton where he also
earned a MEd in 2012. A participant– researcher in Canadian Studies in the
Balkans since 2004, Blades has authored seven poetry books, with three of them
also published in Serbian translation. His writings are in over 50 anthologies
as well as more than 30 chapbooks the most recent of which is november poems (dusie kollektiv 8 &
BS Poetry Society).
This
is Blades’ fifth chapbook with above/ground press, after In the Valley of the Shadow of Poets' Corner (1994), Tribeca (1997), wriding (2000) and “t sea ache,” produced as STANZAS #19 (February 1999).
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
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