Review by Andrew Faulkner Pigeon Karen Solie House of Anansi Press, 2009 112 pages, $18.95 We know who Karen Solie is. She is the author of Short Haul Engine and Modern and Normal, which have brought her a fistful of awards and nominations. Solie was the Canadian judge for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize, and […]
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Fond
Reviewed by Aaron Tucker Fond Kate Eichhorn BookThug, 2008 80 pages, $20 The modern mind is no longer asked to remember. As Google swallows information, repackages and archives it, the need for memory shrinks; it becomes far more important to know where and how to find a fact than to retain that same fact. Therefore […]
Crabwise, Crabwise, Burning Bright
Reviewed by Jeff Latosik Crabwise to the Hounds Jeramy Dodds Coach House Books, 2008 80 pages, $16.95 Wallace Stevens famously quipped, “A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.” While such a sentiment may do little to win over those who desire a clear raison d’être […]
Robert Earl Stewart’s “Near Muted Swans”
Near Muted Swans A likeness like an electrocardiogram fire bleeding a blood orange running into what can only be called corpse paint grey, then rust wet waterline. I’m playing this game with the top of the food chain in the boats docked along the canal, with a long way to go through a Confederate town […]
“Pure with Wild Intention”: On Jason Camlot’s The Debaucher*
Review by Alessandro Porco The Debaucher Jason Camlot Insomniac Press, 2008 112 pages, $11.95 The title poem of Jason Camlot’s third collection of poetry, The Debaucher, is an essay into the meaning and value of debauchery as an aesthetic and ethos. A “debaucher is not necessarily / a person,” writes Camlot, though it certainly could […]
