Origami Dove
by Susan Musgrave
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The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada's most vibrant and original writers. With her first major collection in ten years, Susan Musgrave displays a range of form and expression that may surprise even her most faithful readers. The quiet, lapidary elegies of "Obituary of Light" are set against the furious mischief of "Random Acts of Poetry," where the lines move with the inventive energy of a natural storyteller, while "Heroines" wrests a harsh and haunting show more poetry from the language of the street. nbsp; Her alertness to the absurdity in even the most heartbreaking personal crises leavens the sorrow that speaks through so many of the poems. Sadness and levity interweave. The wilderness and the penitentiary reflect one another. There's an underlying tenderness, though, whether she is writing about family, the dispossessed, her life on Haida Gwaii, or the vagaries of love. This is Susan Musgrave in full control of her powers, writing poetry that cuts right to the bone. show lessTags
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I read this because it was shortlisted for a Governor General's award. Now I wish I hadn't bothered.
Musgrave's Dove had nothing at all that I could connect to or recognize from my own experience, and the joy of reading poetry comes from a some sense of recognition or illumination. End result: reading this made me feel like I was slogging through treacle.
Musgrave's Dove had nothing at all that I could connect to or recognize from my own experience, and the joy of reading poetry comes from a some sense of recognition or illumination. End result: reading this made me feel like I was slogging through treacle.
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Susan Musgrave was born March 12, 1951 in Santa Cruz, California. Musgrave left school at age 14 and published her first poems at age 16. Musgrave has won several awards for her poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's books. She won a National Magazine Award, R.P. Adams Memorial Prize for Short Fiction, the bp nichol Chapbook Award, and the show more People's Choice Poetry Award. Her poem, Ice-Age Lingerie, received first prize in the Panty Lines Poetry Contest. In 1996 she received the Tilden (CBC/Saturday Night) Canadian Literary Award for Poetry and the Vicky Metcalf Short Story Editor's Award. She has been short-listed four times for the Governor General's Award. She currently resides on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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