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Votive
Votive considers various forms of devotion and our often fraught attempts to respond to “our confusion, our curiosity.” These are poems concerned with the way we use stories, old and new, to connect our experiences, and the way we persist in our quest for love, hope and meaning when language falters —“What we couldn’t say we found in the skies.” MacAskill’s great gift resides in her facility for coaxing things evasive and intuitive into crisp form and language, in voicing what “so quickly I /knew and knew and knew.”
Votive considers various forms of devotion and our often fraught attempts to respond to “our confusion, our curiosity.” These are poems concerned with the way we use stories, old and new, to connect our experiences, and the way we persist in our quest for love, hope and meaning when language falters —“What we couldn’t say we found in the skies.” MacAskill’s great gift resides in her facility for coaxing things evasive and intuitive into crisp form and language, in voicing what “so quickly I /knew and knew and knew.”
The subtlety of the subtext in Votive is indeed like smoke: you can wander through it effortlessly, but the scent of it remains in your clothes. —Micheline Maylor, Quill & Quire
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Dimensions:
64 Pages
8.5in * 5.3in * 0.25in
140gr
Published:
October 08, 2024
City of Publication:
Sackville
Country of Publication:
CA
Publisher:
ISBN:
9781554472680
Language:
eng
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