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On Aug 18, 2024, Kestral Gaian wrote
(in article <v9smam$2c9m4$
1@dont-email.me>):
On 16/08/2024 06:30, David Dalton wrote:
From http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550656688
(where you can oder the book) :
Interrobang
Mary Dalton
The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the questioning and
the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton’s compelling investigations of home and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection—in extraordinary poems of
aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites of community abandoned. The “flared mouth” of Dalton’s acclaimed musicality gives voice to lost souls and a lost sense of the earth. The collection’s unique
mix of bleakness and beauty is also reflected in various riddle and riddle-like series with their ambiguity, open-endedness, playfulness, and unexpected linguistic shifts. Interrobang movingly fuses notions of exploration —of glancing at things slant—with an emotional range that feels new and visionary. This is a steely, brilliant book from a major Canadian poet.
Signal Editions
Poetry 2024
Mary Dalton’s volumes of poetry include Merrybegot,Red Ledger, and Hooking,
as well as two prose works: the miscellany Edge and The Vernacular Strain in
Newfoundland Poetry, a print version of her 2022 Pratt Lecture. Dalton’s work has been widely anthologized in Canada and abroad. She has won numerous
awards, including the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for various others, among them the Pat Lowther Award, the Atlantic Poetry Award,
and the Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Thanks for providing such a great review - worth checking out!
It wasn’t a review but a quote from the publisher’s web site,
but if I find out about any reviews I will post links to them.
The official launch isn’t until September and I will post
a notice of it when I get my invitation.
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