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| Title By Year | 1997 (?). JONAH AS BOY SEAMAN |
| First Line | He longed to cram it all into his pusser's chest |
| Creators | Outram, Richard Daley, 1930-2005
Howard, Barbara, 1926-2002
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| Publisher | [Gauntlet Press] |
| Place of Publication | [Toronto] |
| Date | [1997?] |
| Description | One sheet of turquoise paper, 22 x 28 cm. Title of poem is printed in title case italics, in black. Poem is printed in burgundy. Above the title are depicted the sixteen stars of the constellation Cetus (the Whale), in rose. At the foot of the poem is: 'Richard Outram', in black. |
| Size of Original | 1 sheet ; 22 x 28 cm. |
| Local Call Number | PS 8579 U92 J66 1997 RARE |
| Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Broadside |
| Format | Image/jpeg |
| Identifier | GP-0075 |
| Collection | Gauntlet Press of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard |
| Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries |
| Language | Eng |
| Source | Print original in the Rare Books Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries. |
| Transcript | He longed to cram it all into his pusser's chest and chuck it overboard, the whole entangled botch; and tell his Captain he was making a clean breast of things, and volunteer to stand the middle watch. Or else evade his mother's eye, her weary shrug, while she was in the kitchen making him his tea, and sweep the broken vow beneath the threadbare rug that stretched across the room from sea to sea. Fear, whatever depths that filial guilt may plumb, can rise and drift ashore upon some filthy tide; and he foresaw stout men in blazoned aprons come to take the carpets up when she had barely died. And there is no away to get to, nor to throw the neighbours' garbage into; nor could he let his vade-mecum perish, with its crazy row of patchwork numbers and its dog-eared Alphabet. |
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