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Cutting the Devil's Throat

by (author) Andrew Steeves

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 1998
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864922526
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

To play "cutting the devil's throat," hold a round stone as if you were going to skip it across the water, but throw it straight up into the air. If you do it right, the stone drops into the water without a splash, making only a sound like a gulp. The poems in Cutting the Devil's Throat create the persona of a young man cutting through darkness to light, finding a way to live a sane, useful life through modest yet deliberate daily action. In ghazal suites, short lyrics, and longer narrative poems, Steeves uses clean, precise language to open loopholes of vision in what is, for a young husband and father, a confusing, even threatening world.

About the author

Andrew Steeves, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, is the co-publisher of The Gaspereau Review and a partner in Gaspereau Press. Poems from Cutting the Devil's Throat have appeared in literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Queen#&39;s Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Canadian Literature.

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