That Singing You Hear at the Edges
MacLeod, Sue
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Add to basketSold by Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 21 January 2009
Condition: Fair to Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFair to good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages have some underlining and liner notes on several pages. Pictures available upon request.
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This is a collection in which the unexpected is commonplace: "the" and "an" attend a 12-step group for co-dependents; the human tongue is exposed as "old amphibian"; and The Angel of You Made This Mess, Lie Down rises from tangled bedsheets. MacLeod works intimately, intricately, with the power of nuance, of detail. The dividing walls of time and place remain intact but approach transparency because of what turns visible -- and audible -- when we become still enough to hear the singing at the edges.
Rooted in a particular life but looking outward, these poems express a full range of emotion. In the linked section, the gathering up of each wave before its breaking, a mother, a daughter and a Cape Breton village form a story that is both personal and archetypal: a blueprint for growing up -- for "learning long division" in a vast and changing world.
Two of the poems in this book have won national prizes: Arc's Poem of the Year award, and Second Prize in the LCP's National Poetry Contest. When the final poem, "Especially for a woman, reading," was broadcast, listeners responded from across the country, asking: "Where can I get a copy?" This book is the reply.
Sue MacLeod was appointed the first Poet Laureate of Halifax in May 2001. Her poetry has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines including The Antigonish Review, Arc, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, The Gaspereau Review, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, The Pottersfield Portfolio, PRISM International, Room of One's Own and TickleAce. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land, Vintage 2000, Rip-Rap: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada.
Sue's first book, The Language of Rain, was shortlisted for the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award. That Singing You Hear at the Edges is her second book.
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