It's Hard Being Queen
The Dusty Springfield Poems
- Publisher
- Freehand Books
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2008
- Category
- Canadian, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Pop Vocal
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551119267
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
- List Price
- $16.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990601453
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada's best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time. In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates the peripatetic art, life, and times of Dusty Springfield.
Alternating between playful irreverence and profound compassion, It's Hard Being Queen paints a compulsively readable portrait of an extraordinary life. Each page is infused with wit, drama, and, of course, music. Jeanette Lynes not only steps into the icon's shoes—she lives in her skin.
About the author
It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems is Jeanette Lynes` fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003, shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award), The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003), and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999). Her awards include the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and first prize in the Grain Postcard Story Competition. She has been a visiting artist / writer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as a faculty member of Francis Xavier University and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. She is currently co-editor of The Antigonish Review.Jeanette Lynes grew up on a farm in Alice Munro country while "Son of a Preacher Man" played on transistor radios everywhere.
Editorial Reviews
"Lynes succeeds admirably in making flesh of Dust."
Qull and Quire
"A remarkable, one-of-a-kind achievement and simply a great read. Mixing play with a Yeatsian cold eye, Lynes's respect for her complex and human subject is felt in each and every line."
David McGimpsey
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