Teethmarks
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
95 pages
978-0-88971-193-8 (ISBN)
Description
Teethmarks offers a cutting examination of contemporary society, from the personal to the global. The "fuzzy" simplicity of childhood at the book's outset is deftly shadowed by details of cigarette butts in the girl's room, the scent of burning leaves and teeth marks on Barbie dolls (From the dog, Terry assures her, when he was a puppy.) From there on in, Queyras embarks on a dynamic exploration of form in poems sharply aware of shifting boundaries, groundlessness, the seedy pastoral of childhood and the difficulty of maintaining community and family in our increasingly fragmented lives. Teeth Marks merges lives constructed by B-movies and the daily news, transposing their black-and-white "realities" with palettes of vital colour.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
123 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88971-193-8 (9780889711938)
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Sina Queyras' first book of poetry, Slip, was published by ECW Press in 2001. She has been a finalist in the CBC National Literary Competition several times for both poetry and fiction. Her poetry has been published widely in anthologies and journals in Canada and the US. Sina grew up in Winnipeg, Vancouver Island and Terrace, BC, was educated at the University of Victoria, UBC and Concordia, where she received her M.A. in creative writing. She currently lives in Brooklyn, teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and spends her summers in Toronto.