Gutted

Gutted, Evie Christie's powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats' "foul rag and bone shop of the heart"--A world where needs are unfulfilled and passions unrequited (or worse) - it also manages to revel in the beauty of fragility and discover awe in the smallest things. Depictions of alcoholism and sex contrast with scenes of contented domesticity; questions of faith stand in counterpoint to the harsher realities of pornography and violence. Lovers, friends, family, and strangers play an equal part in shaping these sharply barbed observations, fleshing out the typically unseen and unspoken dramas of both small town and urban existence. From out of "an anarchy of conventional process" comes Evie Christie's stunning, original observations - because despite the searing and sometimes controversial themes, this is essentially love poetry - the kind that will leave your "heart plundered, hands lifted, gutted."

Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Front Matter -- Come and Break My Heart -- New Years Day Robbery at the KeeneToronto Dominion Bank -- Straw -- I Love Alcoholics -- The Revival Tent on Highway 7 -- In the Cold Months -- At the Wagon Wheel Saloon and Motel -- This is a Picture of Us -- The Bums Out Front of the Scott Mission -- Our Lady of the A & P -- Picking Up My Brother on the Way to Hastings -- Riding County Road 3 -- Letters Addressed to 745 Palmerston Avenue -- I Know the Monday Night Women -- Because I Dont Have a Muse -- Door-Buster Sale, Saturday Morning -- Greetings from Barton and Bathurst -- Moving to Doc Fords House -- Sweet Revenge -- Nig, Son of Debbie -- Im Thinking About Memphis -- Slaughterhouse Sonnet -- Back Cover -- The Properties of Loss -- There is a Place in Trois Rivi232;res -- Theyve Gone and Sealed the Gates to Heaven -- An Honest Woman -- Your Wife -- Love and Mortgages -- Domestic Byzantium -- If Things Had Been Different -- Every Time a Lover Asks How Could This Happen? -- Eulogy Girls -- Hearing From Jennifer -- Porn Stars and Pharmaceuticals -- Things My Psychiatrist Would Say About Me -- Lady Like You -- Alphonse and the Egg -- Women of T…