Making strange to yourself

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Making strange to yourself

By (author): Audrey Poetker

Making strange to yourself beats with a great, raw desire to know and experience; the poems rage with truth, sing their steadfast faith in the body, chant their incantations, moving us to deeper sorrow, greater longing and imagination.

AUTHOR

Audrey Poetker

Audrey Poetker has been published in literary journals such as Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, Mennonite Mirror and The New Quarterly. Her second book of poetry, standing all the night through (Turnstone Press), was nominated as McNally-Robinson Book of Year in 1992. She lives on a Manitoba farm and is mother to three dogs.