Sympathy Loophole

By (author): Jaime Forsythe

This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe Ñ the sideshow we call home Ñ where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks compete with the everyday for the mark’s hard-earned buck. Jaime Forsythe’s poetry is loaded with wit, mystery, surprise, and breathtaking juxtapositions Ñ it’s a contemporary inventory of pop culture and human experience that proves the wacky and the poignant can share a seat in the same roller-coaster of a stanza.

AUTHOR

Jaime Forsythe

Jaime Forsythe is a Toronto-based writer currently pursuing a masters degree through the University of Guelph. She’s known in Canada’s urban centres; keeps dates with friends and family Ã’back home.’

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Grounded in the domestic world, Jaime Forsythe’s spare, yet storied poems immerse us in particulars: wax, egg cartons, swizzle sticks, sweatpants, thongs, Ôan earring/in the grass.’ Forsythe tells the familiar slant, full of startling revelations Ñ ÔIn each surprise, something/you already know.’ These are smart, personable, fresh, carefully crafted poems, and Jaime Forsythe is a poet I very much look forward to hearing more from.Ó (Jeanette Lynes, author of It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems)

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This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe Ñ the sideshow we call home Ñ where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks compete with the everyday for the mark’s hard-earned buck. Jaime Forsythe’s poetry is loaded with wit, mystery, surprise, and breathtaking juxtapositions Ñ it’s a contemporary inventory of pop culture and human experience that proves the wacky and the poignant can share a seat in the same roller-coaster of a stanza.

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Details

Dimensions:

62 Pages
8.885in * 5.85in * 1in
1lb

Published:

April 07, 2012

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Mansfield Press

ISBN:

9781894469746

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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