The legendary Terry Sawchuk is said to have kept parts of himself in jars: one for teeth, one for bone chips, and another for his appendix. no cage contains a stare that well is jarring in much the same way. Each poem in this collection is a self - contained vessel in which a distinct bit of our national game - a player or a fight, a save or a goal, an injury or a regret - is preserved; mementos cross - cut into countless sheets of ice. Often dark and brooding, this book offers a league of gloomy characters: a spiteful Zamboni driver and a nearly blinded beer - leaguer; a maimed minor - hockey coach and that over - bearing hockey dad you've heard in the rink. These are poems about hockey - shifting their way through the game, its characters, images, and passions. no cage contains a stare that well is like an impossible glove save in overtime - exulting in the game while examining the darker, musty corners of its locker rooms. But these poems speak to life off - ice as well: to how we know what we know, how we feel what we feel, and how we win or lose.
- ISBN10 6611942556
- ISBN13 9786611942557
- Publish Date 1 October 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint ECW Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 60
- Language English