Amateurs at Love (Paperback)

Love is a boxcar going off the rails. For anyone who has experienced the highs and lows of love and wants to know they are not alone.Patricia Young's new collection confirms her status as one of Canada's great and most versatile contemporary poets. In Amateurs at Love, she explores the dynamic, liminal space between lovers, taking precise aim at the silent climacteric moments of the heart: the interrogating, persuading, confiding, reflecting moments that help us feel and understand that distance.Her response is unexpected, unsettling and emotionally pungent. To the question of what is love, her interlocutor answers,I think it means a boxcar going off the rails, grain spilling down a gully, fermenting over summer, a bear gorging on that grain, passing out in a field, a bear that could wake any moment, hung-over and thirsty and ready to kill for a drop of water In forms ranging wildly from pangramic love songs to prose poems, Young guides her readers through the many layers of human relationship with unappeasable joy. Her poetic voice, her bold and unconventional metaphors, her rich incantatory rhythms and linguistic dexterity, lure us into a pulsing universe that leaves no aspect of human nature unblemished.

General

Imprint:	Goose Lane Editions
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	September 2018
Authors:	Patricia Young
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-0-86492-991-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-86492-991-9
Barcode:	9780864929914

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