new from above/ground press

cuba A book
a long poem by Monty Ried
$4

from "cuba A book"

Imagination
always has a body.

Revolution always
has a boat.

You have entered
the black room

and the celebrated boat
is preserved

in a glass house
in the old city.

Description
is no longer possible.

What's left
of the sea

has never
arrived.

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Born in Saskatchewan, Monty Reid lived in Alberta for many years before
moving to the Ottawa area (Luskville QC) in 1999. His books of poetry
Crawlspace (Anansi), Dog Sleeps (NeWest) and Flat Side (rd press). His
most recent publications inclusde a chapbook, Six Songs for the Mammoth
Steppe (above/ground press), and part of his poem, The Luskville
Reductions (now that he has moved over to Ottawa), appeared in the first
issue of ottawater (www.ottwawater.com/). He is curently Director of
Exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

a note on him at
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2005/04/note-on-poetry-of-monty-reid-from-six.html

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