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Positions to Pray In is another in a series of Barry Dempster's well-crafted, intensely intelligent...
The incantation you find in this surprising collection is multifaceted and complex: the intimate personal,...
Day's poems press toward the realm where the sensuous and the sacred fuse. Queer and...
In Slender Human Weight, Sue Chenette explores a world both familiar and mysterious. She...
A bilingual French-English selection of poems by Governor General award-winning Quebecois poet and songwriter.
In unflinching lyrics, Sue Chenette confronts her father's depression and death. Probing memories, fingering mementos -- a square nail, a sketch on a napkin -- she examines them for what they may reveal of the father she was sure she knew, deepened, in death, into the mystery of his own being. The poems are a journey through grief, both a search for the father she loved and a searching look into a father/daughter relationship.
"Old square nail you carried in a pocket,/ fingered among smooth coins --/ rust-pocked, blunt-broken tip --/ rough charm."
