Short Haul Engine
Published on 15. September 2001
84 pages
978-1-926829-42-5 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes), shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.
Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after another. The writing is clear, striking and open to all sorts of possibilities. Even at their most playful, these poems dive much deeper than initially expected. There's a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, but tempered with a haunting vulnerability that makes even the sharpest lines tremble.
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Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and raised in southwest Saskatchewan. Her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the BC Book Prize Dorothy Livesay Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award. She lives in Toronto.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I Like You
- Eating Dirt
- Dry Mother
- Signs Taken for Wonders
- Sturgeon
- Boyfriend's Car
- Thief
- Action at a Distance
- Meteorology
- Java Shop, Fort MacLeod
- Days Inn
- Drift
- I Like You
- In Praise of Grief
- Three for a Friend in Lieu of Some Help
- Hangover
- Design Flaw
- Other People's Houses
- Heart Attack Song
- Last Waltz
- Anniversary
- Dear Heart
- Searching for Freud
- Sick
- Flashpoint
- Night Blind
- In Passing
- Alert Bay, Labour Day
- East Window, Victoria
- Skid
- Early in Winter
- Driving Alone
- Why I Dream of Helicopter Crashes
- Salmon River Motel
- In-Flight Movie
- The Bends
- Tenant
- A Treatise on the Evils of Modern Homeopathic Medicines
- Love Poem for a Private Dick
- The Only Living Half Boy
- Doll House
- For Anne Sexton, on the Anniversary of Her Suicide
- House Plan
- Roger the Shrubber
- For the Short Haul
- Panic in Four Parts
- Waking Up in Surgery
- Real Life
- Staying Awake
- Suffield
- Toad
- Marine Biology
- Ill Wind
- 72 Miles
- Notes on the poems
- Acknowledgements
- Biography
