Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
University of Alberta Press
Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
I’m Allowed to Have Whatever Kind of Father I Want
You are currently not able to access this content.
You are currently not able to access this content.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vi
- The Father I Had 1
- God Was a Baby 3
- A Child’s Book of Holy Services 4
- Her Breath on My Face 6
- Other Side of the Glass 8
- Effect on Her Throat 10
- The House on Strathnaver Avenue 11
- Mothers Who Know 15
- The Thing about Snow 16
- Photograph 22
- Under the Covers 23
- The Girls I Grew Up with Are Everywhere 25
- Short Change 27
- After the Test 28
- Walk on the Left-Hand Side 29
- 5:53 PM 30
- A Perspective on Women 32
- Collard Greens 33
- Lasts 34
- I’m Allowed to Have Whatever Kind of Father I Want 36
- Intimacy 38
- On the Porch 39
- At Times, My Teeth Chatter 41
-
About face
- What It’s Like to Have My Face 46
- Understanding My Face 47
- Wake 52
- A Fragile Defiance 54
- Smoke 55
- Winnipeg Trip 57
- Commitment 59
- Two Mornings, 2018 61
- Boxed 63
- Those I Call Friends 64
- Duck Ugly 66
- Beneficiaries of a Genocide 67
- Slow 69
- Sometimes You Learn Things Quite Late in the Game 70
- Something Purple 72
- What it is like to be this extreme and appear normal 75
- The Other Grandmother 78
- Self-Portrait of the Poet 80
- Addendum 83
- Poetic statement 87
- Acknowledgements 90
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vi
- The Father I Had 1
- God Was a Baby 3
- A Child’s Book of Holy Services 4
- Her Breath on My Face 6
- Other Side of the Glass 8
- Effect on Her Throat 10
- The House on Strathnaver Avenue 11
- Mothers Who Know 15
- The Thing about Snow 16
- Photograph 22
- Under the Covers 23
- The Girls I Grew Up with Are Everywhere 25
- Short Change 27
- After the Test 28
- Walk on the Left-Hand Side 29
- 5:53 PM 30
- A Perspective on Women 32
- Collard Greens 33
- Lasts 34
- I’m Allowed to Have Whatever Kind of Father I Want 36
- Intimacy 38
- On the Porch 39
- At Times, My Teeth Chatter 41
-
About face
- What It’s Like to Have My Face 46
- Understanding My Face 47
- Wake 52
- A Fragile Defiance 54
- Smoke 55
- Winnipeg Trip 57
- Commitment 59
- Two Mornings, 2018 61
- Boxed 63
- Those I Call Friends 64
- Duck Ugly 66
- Beneficiaries of a Genocide 67
- Slow 69
- Sometimes You Learn Things Quite Late in the Game 70
- Something Purple 72
- What it is like to be this extreme and appear normal 75
- The Other Grandmother 78
- Self-Portrait of the Poet 80
- Addendum 83
- Poetic statement 87
- Acknowledgements 90