A Painted Elephant
- ISBN-10
- 1552451178
- ISBN-13
- 9781552451175
- Category
- Canadian poetry
- Pages
- 104
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Author
- Jill Hartman
Description
A Painted Elephant tells a tale of love - unrequited, of course, like all the best stories. Our Juliet? A lonely Indian elephant, newly arrived at the Calgary Zoo from Holland, with a penchant for moonlight escapes. Her Romeo? The wooden Maytag Man statue on Calgary's 9th Street, with his sad eyes, his oaken thighs, his aloofness. This book, the first from Jill Hartman, is a tragi-comic narrative poem about pachyderm passion. Nina Simone, Pig Latin, German opera and a chorus of Canadian poets play in the background. Incense, speculaas cookies and cheap flowers scent the air. And goddesses, myrmidons and shipwrecks appear with some frequency. With fractured, playful language, the smart and funny Painted Elephant trumpets an important new voice in Canadian poetry.
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