Garments of the Known

By (author): Norm Sacuta

With its juxtaposition of Canadian prairie with the downs of southern England, with its movement between reality and dream, night and day, Norm Sacuta’s brilliant debut poetry collection, Garments of the Known, uses both traditional verse forms and linguistic fracture to create a most passionate landscape.That landscape is always half one world, half another. As a gay man in Alberta, Sacuta’s verse lends a wary eye to the political and the dangerous, even as it articulately pokes fun at the whole notion of a gay identity and the imagery needed to express it. He has also lived and studied in England, and that experience mirrors the struggle between tradition and experimentation in his verse, and a voice caught between a sense of familial belonging and cultural expatriation.Garments of the Known marks the arrival of a powerful, original new voice in Canadian poetry, a voice that will continue to be heard from in years to come.

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Norm Sacuta

Norm Sacuta was raised in Edmonton, and has returned to live in the city twice, after attending the University of British Columbia in 1987 and after studying in England for three years in the 1990s. It was in England that he was exposed to the politically charged atmosphere of the Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change Program at the University of Sussex, and it was here that much of the poetry in this collection was formed or re-worked. He works as a writer and editor in Edmonton, where he is currently completing his first novel, One Last Thing About the Titanic.


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With its juxtaposition of Canadian prairie with the downs of southern England, with its movement between reality and dream, night and day, Norm Sacuta’s brilliant debut poetry collection, Garments of the Known, uses both traditional verse forms and linguistic fracture to create a most passionate landscape.That landscape is always half one world, half another. As a gay man in Alberta, Sacuta’s verse lends a wary eye to the political and the dangerous, even as it articulately pokes fun at the whole notion of a gay identity and the imagery needed to express it. He has also lived and studied in England, and that experience mirrors the struggle between tradition and experimentation in his verse, and a voice caught between a sense of familial belonging and cultural expatriation.Garments of the Known marks the arrival of a powerful, original new voice in Canadian poetry, a voice that will continue to be heard from in years to come.

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Dimensions:

80 Pages
8.5in * 5.75in * 0.3in
0.49lb

Published:

October 05, 2001

Publisher:

Nightwood Editions

ISBN:

9780889711785

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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