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A lyrical collection focussing on a specific street and on a particular tree growing there, Earle Street, by Governor General’s Award winner Arleen Paré, takes the concept of street and urban living, the houses on the street, the neighbours, the boulevard trees and wildlife, and the street’s history as a poetic focal point. The book is divided into four sections, each of which differently considers the poet’s home street – as a river, as an arboretum, as a window, and finally as a whole world – resulting in an extended meditation on place, community, and lesbian domesticity that is at once poetic and philosophical. “Start from the inside,” Paré writes, “as though organic, as though building from inside a seed.” Here is the macrocosm reflected, examined, and refracted through the microcosm of a single, quiet neighbourhood street.
“Paré disrupts the fixity inherent in ideas of normativity by underscoring the very liminality that exists at the core of language.”
—Clayton Longstaff, the League of Canadian Poets
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“Arleen has written poems about trees, rats, a grey squirrel, an orange cat, the people, the naming of the street, memories of her own ancestors, and of her own past. All of these aspects, including the various forms used, make it a rich and intimate exploration of place as well as with oneself.”
—maryannmoore.ca
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“Read this book and prepare to see where you live anew.”
—The Maynard
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“a cool and soothing collection”
—Times Colonist
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“Paré disrupts the fixity inherent in ideas of normativity by underscoring the very liminality that exists at the core of language”
—Clayton Longstaff, League of Canadian Poets
96 Pages
9in * 229mm * 6in * 152mm * 0.3125in8mm
156gr
5.625oz
March 01, 2020
Vancouver
CA
9781772012507
eng
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