Table of Contents

• Plans Deranged by Time: The Poetry of George Fetherling, selected with an introduction by A.F. Moritz
• Foreword, Neil Besner
• Biographical Note
• Introduction, A.F. Moritz

• • Alleycat / 1

  • Harry's New York Bar in Paris / 2
  • Border Catechism (excerpts) / 3
  • Subroutine / 4
  • The Dark Grid / 5
  • The Six O'Clock News from Buffalo / 6
  • Moving towards the Vertical Horizon (excerpts) / 8
  • Memorandum for the File / 12
  • Pre Texts / 13
  • Radio / 14
  • Ancient Beliefs / 16
  • Telegraphic Instructions / 18
  • Beginning with North / 19
  • The View Keeps Reminding Us of Flags / 20
  • With the Name Goes Great Responsibility / 21
  • Opportunities for Redemption / 23
  • Chinese Anthology (excerpts) / 24
  • Mother Goddess / 26
  • Art Criticism / 27
  • Juice / 29
  • Ice Ages / 30
  • Old Chinese Poem / 31
  • Bush Architecture / 32
  • 0930 / 33
  • Letter Two (excerpt) / 34
  • Singer, An Elegy (excerpts) / 35
  • First Signs of Wartime Spring / 50
  • Navigating Chinatown / 52
  • Confusion of Themes Not of Motives / 53
  • Mappamundi / 54
  • Postdated / 56

  • • Afterword, George Fetherling

    • Acknowledgements

About the Author

George Fetherling has been writing and publishing for more than forty-five years. One of his most popular works is Travels by Night: A Memoir, which recreates leading personalities and events in the fabled Canadian cultural renaissance of 1965-75. His most recent books are The Sylvia Hotel Poems and the novel Walt Whitman's Secret, both published in 2010. Fetherling is also a visual artist.

A.F. Moritz has published more than twenty collections of poetry as well as important works of literary history and numerous translations of Latin American verse. A leading figure in the literary life of Canada, he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a major award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Two of his most recent works have reaffirmed his reputation: Night Street Repairs (2004) received the ReLit Award and The Sentinel (2008) won both the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

``[Fetherling's] images are not simply precise and evocative; they are also witty.... Many of his poems tend toward aperçu or epigram. The reader is constantly surprised by an unexpected analogy. Moritz in his erudite and densely allusive introduction...bring[s] out those elements of Fetherling's critical self-examination that underlie his empathy for members of the similarly disillusioned wider community, and makes a good case for recommending Fetherling's poetry to the expanded audience it deserves.'' -- Event (Douglas College), 42.1, 201303