Get Well Soon: Poems - Softcover

Name: Get Well Soon: Poems
Author: Sharpe, Jamie
ISBN: 9781770417700

Sharpe, Jamie

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ISBN 10: 1770417702 ISBN 13: 9781770417700

Publisher: ECW Press, 2024

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In the spring of 2020, Jamie Sharpe was in New Brunswick, purportedly studying the famed Magnetic Hill outside Moncton. A dog-walker discovered Sharpe in a ditch, disrobed except for his backpack containing a manuscript ...

With his fifth collection, Get Well Soon, Sharpe reaffirms "he is utter master of his language. Whether [Sharpe's] poems are the result of long lucubration or the inspiration of the moment, they bear no mark of effort, and it is not without admiration, nor even without astonishment, that one is carried along -- by the noble, unswerving amble of those gorgeous stanzas, proud white hackneys harnessed in gold -- into the glory of the evenings. Rich and subtle, [Jamie Sharpe]'s poetry is never merely lyrical; it always encloses an idea within the garland of its metaphors, and however vague or general that idea may be, it serves to strengthen the necklace; the pearls are secured by a thread that, though sometimes invisible, is ever sure."

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About the Author

Jamie Sharpe is the author of five books of poetry. He lives in the Comox Valley, British Columbia.

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The Ship of Theseus

In the aughts my nudes were leaked to the internet. Which is to say I posted them. Often. I was very leaky. I’d comment on various forums, under various aliases (Fernando Pessoa, Purrssoa1888, Ricardo Reis) asking about these scandalous pictures.

After the better part of two decades, the smallest spark arose as to who this unrobed Jamie Sharpe was. But, by then, he no longer existed.

Special Agro-Cheque

I’d paint this orchid
Or feign happiness

But it’s forging

A fifty billion
Zimbabwe note

Useless

And beautiful
As your promise

Never to use aubade

In a poem
And mine

Never to cheat

A wake forms
Behind my speedboat

Henrique

Was the more tender
Lover

The Crusaders
After Shklovsky

During their first arena tour, a heavy metal band mistook each city for Calgary. When, upon playing for the city, they found it was not Calgary, they’d destroy it.
Out of disappointment.
Meanwhile, Calgary exists.