Poetry/Literature Excerpts
Poetry:
Margaret Atwood: There is Only One of Everything
Margaret Atwood: Variation on the Word Sleep
Rupert Brooke: Heaven
Leonard Cohen: The killers that run...
Leonard Cohen: A Kite is a Victim
Frank Davey: The Piano
Irving Layton: For Musia's Grandchildren
bpNichol: Love Song 6
Michael Ondaatje: The Cinnamon Peeler
Al Purdy: Poem
Al Purdy: The Dead Poet
James Reaney: The Upper Canadian
F.R. Scott: W.L.M.K.
Miriam Waddington: Advice to the Young
Phyllis Webb: To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide
Literature:
Lydia Davis: Interesting (short story)
Don DeLillo: White Noise (excerpt on marriage and mortality)
Annie Dillard: Holy the Firm (excerpt on God's tenuous connection to the world)
Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (excerpt on vulnerability)
Nick Hornby: High Fidelity (excerpt on sad songs and depression)
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God (excerpt on coming of age)
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (excerpt on interfaith dialogue)
bpNichol: journal (excerpt)