Poetry. Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year- and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author. MONOLOGUE DOGS is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as the characters who speak. Setting the lyric against street argot, archaic language against deflating or ironic feints, metaphors against declarative sentences, the elegiac against the ribald, classical or literary ... Read More
Poetry. Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year- and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author. MONOLOGUE DOGS is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as the characters who speak. Setting the lyric against street argot, archaic language against deflating or ironic feints, metaphors against declarative sentences, the elegiac against the ribald, classical or literary allusions against anachronistic references, these monologues reflect our own disordered subjectivities. In the words of Molly Peacock: "Read her for a fresh, contemporary and knowing sensibility--not to mention an unforgettable sense of humour." Suddenly the car drops down on all fours and will go no further. Arrival is neither here nor there, mother says, searching for her key. But her key is in the last lost pocket of the world's overcoat and tonight -- tonight the forest is ajar. --from "The Hunger Artists" Praise for MONOLOGUE DOGS: "Again Meira Cook proves herself to be one of Canada's most compelling poets."--Molly Peacock "These are poems to read and reread with growing pleasure and admiration."--Steven Heighton Read Less
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