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Poetry Canadian

This Kind of Thinking Does No Good

by (author) Alison Smith

Publisher
Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Initial publish date
Apr 2018
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554471690
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

What will surprise you about Alison Smith’s poems is the tenaciousness that lies beneath their grace and wit, their unwillingness to concede the bittersweet complexity of human experience to either gross reduction or cowed silence. Exploring the domestic epics of relationships, childbirth, and parenting, as well as societal issues like patriarchy and justice, Smith discovers that often “we barely know how feelings think.” But if our stories sometimes elude us–like a skipping rope, where one end is “held slack / by skeptics, the other turned too fast”–Smith’s poems jump in and find expression’s rhythm.

 

About the author

Alison Smith is the author of The Wedding House, Six Mats and One Year, and the chapbook Fishwork, Dear (2009). She was shortlisted for the 2013 CBC Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Guernica Magazine, Fjords Review, Event Magazine, Rusty Toque, Understorey, and Lemonhound. She lives in New Germany, Nova Scotia.

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