
A Strange Relief
Sonnet L'Abbe(Author)
McClelland & Stewart Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 10. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-7710-4583-7 (ISBN)
Description
The dazzling grace of A Strange Relief marks the debut of a singular young poet, Sonnet L'Abbé. In her delicately architected, but toughly envisioned poems, L'Abbé surveys the world and finds it both beautiful and unjust. She portrays that complex world with luxurious rhythms and a vocabulary that invites us to marvel at language's infinite possibilities. Whether she is writing about living in Korea in "Cheju Diary,” or about the Aral Sea in "Nomads,” she shows a keen sensitivity that can at once bear witness to the experience of the cultural outsider while vividly imagining the internal struggles of people whose stories are rarely heard within our borders. But these poems, which span the earth, are also literally about shaping that earth. A Strange Relief is very much about making: making who we are, how we live, and also about making poetry itself. L'Abbé's lyric sequences play on the ear with formal measures and headstrong lines that reinforce her thrillingly varied, but interconnected themes of politics, geography, and love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-4583-7 (9780771045837)
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Person
Sonnet L'Abbe