Rouge

By Adrian De Leon

To commemorate a tragedy.

This series of poems is a response to the 2012 mass shooting at a block party on Danzig Street, Scarborough (Toronto). The city's east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the two intersecting subway lines provide the organizing structure. From west to east, and north to south--Kipling to McCowan, Finch to Downsview--the stations on the way inspiring form, voice, and content, meditation, commentary, and geometry. The City is the Poem.

The Discovery Walk,
inviting my well-worked Clarks
to pry my feet from the confines
of the station,
wasn't necessary to make
a most marvelous Discovery:
the bus sign, hung with steel
--from "Old Mill"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1988449480
• ISBN13: 9781988449487
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"