The Filling Station
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2022
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554472437
- Publish Date
- Nov 2022
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
A figure in an Elizabeth Bishop poema charming Brazilian man named Manuelzinho,“the worst gardener since Cain”so piqued Leesa Dean’s interest that she mined words and images from Bishop’s body of work in order to create a larger world for him to occupy. The result is The Filling Station, a lyrical novella-in-verse drawn uniquely from Bishop’s lexicon in which Manuelzinho takes a wife (and a lover), has a daughter, and grieves his dying father. Shifting from rain-soaked villages to the barren, haunting landscape of Itabira, this novella is a compelling example of poetry’s extraordinary capacity for encapsulating human experienceslove, time, memoryand for reanimating those experiences in the reader’s imagination.
About the author
Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program and teaches English and Creative Writing for Selkirk College in Nelson, BC. She’s been a finalist for the Irving Layton Award, the Litpop Award, and the Quebec Writing Competition. She is Interviews Editor for The Humber Literary Review and a regular contributor to The New Quarterly. Waiting for the Cyclone is her first book.