Dark Menagerie

Élise Turcotte and Andrea Moorhead (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Spring 2014

74 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550719062

ISBN10: 1550719068

English

Translated from the French

$12.00 Canada, $12.00 US

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The poems in Dark Menagerie want to encompass a radical experience of loneliness. It travels through the silence of a poor and clumsy eternity, followed by scenes shot in a flooded city, discovering lost and stubborn things that reflect a strong and dark bond with life. These are visions, fragments searching for some sort of epiphany in a disappearing world.

In the underwater city / blue is a spy / it watches me suffer / for I've lost the use of my voice / I am deporting your face to the North / history consists of a rift / whose length / varies with time / the erosion of mountains

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Dark Menagerie Review
Recours au Poème - October 31, 2016

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