The Refrigerator Memory

The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness. With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You'll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can't stop crying. Bu.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Hating Hungry People; Hating Hungry People; Gerald's Wife Tina; Our Prosthesis; Love the Clown; God in Winter; Butterfly on a Wheel; Small Words Inside Sleep; The Photographer; Lies to Herself; Sentimental Poem About God; On Buoyancy; Lena and Her Father's Yellow Finches; His Peacock Shadow; Bears in the City; Purple Turtleneck; Home; The Fire-Eater and His Daughter; Four Minutes; The Molested in the Mirror; Noni, Who Needed to Cry; The Molested in the Mirror; Intersection with Strawberries; Cupboard; Poem on the Stairs; Urban Restaurant. Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Hating Hungry People Hating Hungry People Gerald's Wife Tina Our Prosthesis Love the Clown God in Winter Butterfly on a Wheel Small Words Inside Sleep The Photographer Lies to Herself Sentimental Poem About God On Buoyancy Lena and Her Father's Yellow Finches His Peacock Shadow Bears in the City Purple Turtleneck Home The Fire-Eater and His Daughter Four Minutes The Molested in the Mirror Noni, Who Needed to Cry The Molested in the Mirror Intersection with Strawberries Cupboard Poem on the Stairs Urban Restaurant. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Jason BrownSong for a Salty Man Made of Stones Can Be Kind Lullaby for Martin Happiness The Fitting Room Toronto, City of Sad Faces Skin Poem Elegy for Atlas Trains First Husband The Foyer of Formal Feeling Riding Hood Reads the Suicide Note The Conversationalist The Foyer of Formal Feeling Love for Jennifer Rain and Lemon Cookies The Refrigerator Memory Little Pica House for Sale by Owner Dirty Rapunzel Brussels Sprout The Runaway Budgie Sunburn Snake and Bees The Hot-Air Balloon Operator and Her Brother Pelican Snowstorm. The Father-Daughter DanceTriptych Notes Acknowledgements. The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness. With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You’ll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can’t stop crying. But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners. You won’t forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm your heart. ‘Bramer’s “Our Prosthesis�* ... [is] wonderfully succinct, while still managing to convey entire lives floating beneath its surface.’ – Lee Gowan ‘[Bramer writes] poems with resonant grief, fragile glass and desperate love, carved carefully and spare out of cold, dark objects, achieving small, remarkable poems.’ – rob mclennan The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness. With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You’ll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can’t stop crying. But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners. You won’t forget The Refrigerator Memory : the icebox cometh to warm your heart. POE011000 The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness. With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy, and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. Readers will find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can't stop crying. But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners. Readers won't forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm the heart