I Was Expecting Someone Taller
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Canadian, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888783110
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
I Was Expecting Someone Taller is actually a collection of people: working people, old people, street people, famous people–from Josephine Baker to Baryshinikov, a woman "lunching out" with Jesus to a barfly. These poetic portraits are truthful, sometimes tinged with black humour, other times political. Sue Nevill’s people break through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and give us colourful, three-dimensional views of their unexpected natures.
About the author
Sue Nevill is the author of I Was Expecting Someone Taller, and a co-author of Quintet: Themes & Variations. Her poetry has been widely published in such Canadian literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review and The New Quarterly. Nevill's work has appeared in many anthologies, including The Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1993. She is a longtime resident of Vancouver, BC.
