Research Catalog

Title

Stray / Allison LaSorda.

Author

LaSorda, Allison

Publication

Fredericton, New Brunswick : Icehouse Poetry, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Besner, Linda

Description

61 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of the ocean, and plumb the depth of loss in a coal mine disaster. Bringing to mind the poetry of Robert Hass and Louise Glück, LaSorda presents the messiness of daily life with emotional honesty and humour. Stray examines intimacy, memory, and decay, often betraying existential bewilderment. Deft word play and musical sense underscore the absurdity these poems explore, while surprising rhymes and unexpected images resound in deeply personal narratives. In this dazzling debut, LaSorda both disarms her readers and breathes fresh life into Canadian poetry."--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Canadian poetry > 21st century
• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

FISH. Backstroke -- Hit the beach -- The smallest island -- Dog star -- Playdate -- The sea is all about us -- Shark year -- No one knows I'm gone -- Youthless -- Elver -- Fish & bird -- BIRD. The first one's always free -- Out of the chorus -- Weather -- Deer stand -- Reply to the shepherd -- Fluid dynamics -- Midsummer signal -- The wetlands draw conclusions -- Party favours -- Glory days -- Lime kiln ruins -- The end of grief -- Fraterville coal mine -- Perseids -- Richochet -- Coven -- MEAT. More or less at the canal -- Horses -- Race, stock, kin -- Home team -- Natural crime -- Summer vacation -- Messages from Thunder Bay -- Down with exhaustion -- Buried animals -- Ringling -- To a point -- Homecoming -- Driving 25 Sideroad, North of 30 -- We're at that age.

ISBN

• 9780864929785
• 0864929781

OCLC

957505657

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library