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Автор: Dave Margoshes
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isbn: 9781770706729
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      Purity of Absence

      Purity of Absence

      poems by

      Dave Margoshes

      Porcepic Books

      an imprint of

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      Beach Holme Publishing

      Vancouver

      Copyright © 2001 by Dave Margoshes

      First Edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), Toronto, Ontario.

      This book is published by Beach Holme Publishing, 226-2040 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 2G2. www.beachholme.bc.ca. This is a Porcepic Book.

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      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and of the British Columbia Arts Council. The publisher also acknowledges the financial assistance received from the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its publishing activities.

      Editor: Michael Carroll

      Production and Design: Jen Hamilton

      Cover Art: Red Hue Moon by Christine Lynn, acrylic on canvas, copyright © 2000.

      Licence granted by Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective.

      Author Photograph: Myek O’Shea

      Printed and bound in Canada by Marc Veilleux Imprimeur

       National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Margoshes, Dave, 1941-

      Purity of absence

      Poems.

      “A Porcepic book. ”

      ISBN 0-88878-419-8

      I. Title.

      PS8576.A647P87 2001 C811’.54 C2001-910123-6

      PR9199.3.M354P87 2001

       For Ilya, as always

      Contents

       The Marriage Bed

       The Sound of My Voice

       Silver Anniversary

       By Canoe to Loon Lake

       Going South for the Winter

       Thirty-Five Below

       The Door

       Taking Heart

       Smoke

       Learning to Breathe

       Breaking the Silence

       The Marriage Bed

       Saskatoons

       Uncharted

       Anatomy

       Snow

       The Waking

       Okanagan

       Distances

       Purity of Absence

       A New Nightgown

       The Recorder

       A Bird in the House

       The Satisfaction of Knowing

       The Satisfaction of Knowing

       Old Wives’ Tales

       Astrophysics

       After Winnipeg

       The Radio

       Adam’s Rib

       The World by the Tail

       Bronx Cheer

       The Porcupine

       A Painting of Elvis

       The Dark

       Deer, Bowen Island

       Thicker Than Water

       On the Beach