{"id":112,"date":"2015-04-15T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-04-15T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T17:19:54","slug":"a-swan-song-poetry-month-pick-from-the-writer-in-residence-i-shout-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/2015\/04\/15\/a-swan-song-poetry-month-pick-from-the-writer-in-residence-i-shout-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Swan Song Poetry Month Pick from the Writer-in-Residence: “I Shout Love”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Emily-Pohl-Weary<\/p>\n

My Poetry Month<\/a> Choice: “I Shout Love”<\/a> by Milton Acorn<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is one of my favourite <\/a>poems… and also the slightly weepy goodbye post from your 2015 writer-in-residence.<\/p>\n

I’m back in Ontario already, and while I will definitely miss all of you guys, it’s lovely here. The weather has FINALLY caught up to B.C., and I got a bit of a sunburn this weekend!<\/p>\n
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In honour of poetry month–and having missed one of the worst winters in recorded history, I thought I’d share this beautifully angry love poem by Milton Acorn<\/a> called “I Shout Love.”<\/p>\n
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Acorn (1923-86) was a fascinating guy, known as The People’s Poet (there’s an award <\/a>named after him). He was born in Charlottetown, PEI, and lived from 1923-86. For a bit of context, this particular poem was written in 1958, when fusion bombs were invented.<\/div>\n
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There’s something so determined about his love in this work. It’s expansive enough to be embrace both an individual lover and all of humanity<\/a>. Read it aloud, if you dare! Haunting.<\/p>\n
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I Shout Love<\/strong><\/p>\n

I shout love in a blizzard’s
\nscarf of curling cold,
\nfor my heart’s a furred sharp-toothed thing
\nthat rushes out whimpering
\nwhen pain cries the sign writ on it.<\/p>\n

I shout love into your pain
\nwhen skies crack and fall
\nlike slivers of mirrors,
\nand rounded fingers, blued as a great rake,
\npluck the balled yarn of your brain.<\/p>\n

I shout love at petals peeled open
\nby stern nurse fusion-bomb sun,
\nterribly like an adhesive bandage,
\nfor love and pain, love and pain
\nare companions in this age.<\/p>\n

~ Milton Acorn<\/p>\n

June, 1958<\/p>\n

From:<\/b>\u00a0I Shout Love and other Poems<\/i>, ed. James Deahl. Toronto: Aya Press, 1987. p. 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  By Emily-Pohl-Weary My Poetry Month Choice: “I Shout Love” by Milton Acorn This is one of my favourite poems… and also the slightly weepy goodbye post from your 2015 writer-in-residence. I’m back in Ontario already, and while I will definitely miss all of you guys, it’s lovely here. The weather has FINALLY caught up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}