Description
From tantalizing spins on fairy tales to perilous questions of gender and identity, misled never takes words at face value. Shifts in syntax and self mirror shifts in health and sexuality while humor, angst and eroticism become the backdrop in a passion play on words.
- A girl's first crush on a boy transforms into passionate lesbian dreams and encounters.
- An incomplete memory of a clich� ricochets off the familiar.
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A writer's contemplation of rewriting leads to a list of things you can rewrite . . .
"You can rewrite the bus schedule / but you might just confuse yourself."
Through it all, misled dances with equivocation and delights in the enchanting ways in which life and language mislead us all.
About the author
Susan Holbrook's poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House, 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed (Nomados, 2004) and Misled (Red Deer, 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She lives in Leamington, Ontario, and teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She is the author of a poetry textbook, Reading (and Writing About) Poetry (Broadview Press, 2015) and co-editor, with Thomas Dilworth, of The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford, 2010).
Other titles by
How to Read (and Write About) Poetry - Second Edition
Ink Earl
Intertidal
The Collected Earlier Poems 1968–2008
Throaty Wipes
How to Read (and Write About) Poetry
Detours:
An anthology of Poets from Windsor & Essex County
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson
Composition as Conversation
