David Zieroth has published many books of poetry including The Fly in Autumn (2009), which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, How I Joined Humanity at Last (1998), which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the bridge from day to night (2018) and most recently, watching for life (2022.) He taught at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, before retiring and founding The Alfred Gustav Press. Born in Neepawa, MB, he lives in North Vancouver, BC.
PART I:
What He Owns
The Robins
Function of the Individual
Father's Work
My Mother's Wail
Goodbye to Daughter
Office Enchanter
Memo to Myself
Sleeps and Dreams
Teaching the Comma
Philosophy
Consider the Men
The Presentation
The Shadow Meeting
Foot Rub
Spelling
Living Success
People I Meet With Meet With Me
When We First Felt Our Minds
The Good Day
Calling Children
A Story
PART II:
How I Joined Humanity at Last
What Comes After Love
The Exhausted Past
Thinking My Neighbour's Thoughts
Endhome
Reasons for Living
First Rain, Then Snow
You Are Brave
The Way Past Words
The Lost Ocean
My Goodness
Claustrophobic
Once Again Among the Humans
On the Path of Inner Development
Down in the Valley
Next Life
His Mother's Face
Trip Away from Home
Pouches
Self-Admonitions
The Mouse and My Mother
Smoke
PART III:
The Beautiful Voice of the Undertaker
The True Imagined Life Of My Neighbour
The Older Man
The Man Who Invented the Turn Signal
