Ox Lost, Snow Deep

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

“I’m just going to break this, okay?” writes Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick in her sixth full-length poetry collection. The 14 long poems in Ox Lost, Snow Deep range from confessional narrative to collage to surrealism, exploring representations of history, both public and personal, and within that, they probe what is considered important and what is considered not important. These poems include takes on semi-rural existence, raising a family, and living in poverty. They also veer toward popular culture: using movies, music, social media language as jumping-off points or simply by taking those media’s forms. Burdick confronts the very embarrassment of simply being alive: excruciation, apology, loss, humour, mistakes, and grief—and the freedom achieved by acknowledging these things.Burdick’s first collection of new poems since 2018, Ox Lost, Snow Deep will alter your ways of thinking and reading.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-30
Mått:127 x 191 x 7 mm
Vikt:120 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Anvil Press Publishers Inc
ISBN:9781772142419

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Alice Burdick is the author of five books of poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in multiple anthologies, chapbooks, folios, broadsides, cookbooks, and films. She leads workshops for children and adults and is a mentor, freelance editor, proofreader, manuscript assessor, and broadcaster. She lives in Nova Scotia.

Recensioner i media

Shortlisted for the 2025 Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry AwardLonglisted for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award (League of Canadian Poets)“… exquisitely minimal, compact, a string of gleaming jewels. … Not a word is wasted here. That’s skill. … These are such wise, funny and strange poems, it’s hard not linger on a line or a bit of word play or a startling image. I devoured the book on first read and then returned to some of my favourite bits. The reinvented aphorisms are so wise, we should know them already. These should be commandments on stone tablets and acerbic telegrams.” (The temz Review)“Her latest collection of poems taps into the strange beauty of the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. Burdick also dances with absurdism, not-so-gently mocking our earnest search for meaning and using dark humour to comment on the human condition (as well as the non-humane conditions that humans have wrought). …” (Miramichi Reader)