Short Haul Engine by Solie, Karen

Short Haul Engine

Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that...
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Author: Karen Solie
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Short Haul Engine by Solie, Karen

Short Haul Engine

¥5,123

Short Haul Engine

¥5,123
Author: Karen Solie
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book.

Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after another. The writing is clear, striking and open to all sorts of possibilities. Even at their most playful, these poems dive much deeper than initially expected. There's a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, but tempered with a haunting vulnerability that makes even the sharpest lines tremble.

from Signs Taken for Wonders ... Too delicate for these dog-days, small, clover-blonde, my sister sews indoors. I ask her to fashion me into something nice, ivory silk. I am a big girl, sunburnt skin like raw meat, sweating two pews in front of the Blessed Virgin...



Author: Karen Solie
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: 10/16/2001
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.62w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781894078177


Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 10/01/2001 pg. 40

About the Author
Solie, Karen: - Karen Solie's first collection of poems, SHORT HAUL ENGINE (Brick Books, 2001), won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second, MODERN AND NORMAL (Brick Books, 2005), was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals. She is a native of Saskatchewan and now lives in Toronto.

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