
Canoodlers
andrea bennett(Author)
Nightwood Editions (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 22. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-88971-297-3 (ISBN)
Description
The candid, direct poems of Canoodlers interrogate sexuality, friendship, family, language, and social, cultural and political phenomena. Straddling genders, sexualities and social positions, the collection hilariously but harrowingly follows the growth and class leaps of a "townie tomboy."
From family relations ("Dearly beloved, Don Cherry has better conversation skills than my stepfather, and my mother doesn't love me anymore") to individual encounters and concerns ("Part of anyone can see how reasonable it is to stay at home and never leave, because you've anointed that wall, this toilet as safe, and you'd know it even if the lights never came back on"), Canoodlers is a personal study of contemporary consumerism, appropriating the language of marketing and pop culture, twisting and repositioning phrases that have become clichéd. These poems render the familiar unfamiliar and question how relationships function--families, friends, lovers--in contemporary suburban Canadian life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88971-297-3 (9780889712973)
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andrea bennett's writing has appeared in several literary journals and magazines across North America; her poetry has been anthologized in books
from McGraw-Hill Ryerson and Ooligan Press. In 2012, she received a National Magazine Awards honourable mention in the Politics and Public Interest category. She is a contributing editor at Geist, and a former editor at Adbusters, This magazine and PRISM international. Originally from Hamilton, andrea
now lives in Vancouver with her partner, Will. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program in Creative Writing.
from McGraw-Hill Ryerson and Ooligan Press. In 2012, she received a National Magazine Awards honourable mention in the Politics and Public Interest category. She is a contributing editor at Geist, and a former editor at Adbusters, This magazine and PRISM international. Originally from Hamilton, andrea
now lives in Vancouver with her partner, Will. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's MFA program in Creative Writing.