Description
This is about Angels, Women, and Men both separates women and men from the angels, and suggests they are one and the same. In sections titled "Brothers, Sisters, Consorts, Offspring, and Refuse," Chantel Lavoie argues that the familial can be more foreign than familiar. These relationships rooted in blood and bone, sex, and the longing for God, split our lives apart. They break us and they make us whole. The crown of sonnets with which the collection ends -- "The Waste Poems"-- addresses uncomfortable truths about our shared humanity, and what happens when we deny that common ground.
About the author
Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her work has appeared in Arc, CV2, and Prairie Fire among others. Her first collection of poetry, Where the Terror Lies came out in 2012, and she is working on a third, as well as a novel about chimney sweeps.