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ISBN10: 0889712123
ISBN13: 9780889712126
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Mar 15 2006
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
Awards: Governor General's Literary Awards
ISBN13: 9780889712126
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Mar 15 2006
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
Awards: Governor General's Literary Awards
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD
Elizabeth Bachinsky is one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human. We should expect great things from her. --The Globe and Mail
Home of Sudden Service is a sad and scary book of punk rock villanelles and sonnets about delinquency.
Set in Anyvalley, North America, Home of Sudden Service centres around the experiences of young people growing up in the suburbs. The contrast of elegant poetic forms with the colloquial, often harsh language of suburban teens makes for a compelling and engaging achievement.
Bachinsky creates a gothic landscape that will be familiar to anyone who's visited the suburbs. Here, young Brownies dance, learn to sew and get badges in a series of eerie rituals, and smalltown girls settle down early. Murder, lust, teen pregnancy and a young man's disappearance are all discussed with a matter-of-fact, dispassionate voice.
But this world is not without humour and hope. Home of Sudden Service concludes with Drive, a series of fifteen sonnets about the poet's trip across Canada with her sister -- and out of the setting of their youth.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human. We should expect great things from her. --The Globe and Mail
Home of Sudden Service is a sad and scary book of punk rock villanelles and sonnets about delinquency.
Set in Anyvalley, North America, Home of Sudden Service centres around the experiences of young people growing up in the suburbs. The contrast of elegant poetic forms with the colloquial, often harsh language of suburban teens makes for a compelling and engaging achievement.
Bachinsky creates a gothic landscape that will be familiar to anyone who's visited the suburbs. Here, young Brownies dance, learn to sew and get badges in a series of eerie rituals, and smalltown girls settle down early. Murder, lust, teen pregnancy and a young man's disappearance are all discussed with a matter-of-fact, dispassionate voice.
But this world is not without humour and hope. Home of Sudden Service concludes with Drive, a series of fifteen sonnets about the poet's trip across Canada with her sister -- and out of the setting of their youth.
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