Bent at the Spine
- Publisher
- Book*hug Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2012
- Category
- Canadian, General, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927040089
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $20.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927040331
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Bent at the Spine offers a 'pronoun'-ced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party - the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an invigorating pace: cultural difference, different bodies, diffident accents, deafening rhymes. Sometimes rapturous, often vulvy, the poems audaciously teach "you" how to read them, allowing the last-minute-cram-session to be a delving, a plunging, a repeating discovery.
About the author
Nicole Markotic is a poet, novelist, and critic. Her poetry books include Bent At the Spine (BookThug), Minotaurs & Other Alphabets, and Connect the Dots (Wolsak & Wynn); her novels are Yellow Pages (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) and Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot (Arsenal Pulp Press). She has edited a collection of poetry by Dennis Cooley, By Word of Mouth, co-edited (with Sally Chivers) an anthology of essays concerning representations of disability, The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film, is working on a critical book on disability and literature (McFarland & Co), and has an edited collection of essays on Robert Kroetsch (forthcoming with Guernica). She has published in literary journals in Canada, the USA, Australia, and Europe (including The Capilano Review, CV2, filling Station, New American Writing, Open Letter, Prairie Fire, Rampike, and West Coast Line). She won the bpNichol Poetry Chapbook Award in 1998, and was nominated for the Stephan G. Stephansson Poetry Book of the Year Award and for the Henry Kreisel First Book of the Year Award. She edits the chapbook series, Wrinkle Press (publishing such poets as Robert Kroetsch, Nikki Reimer, and Fred Wah), and has worked as an editor for Red Deer Press and NeWest Press. Currently, Nicole Markotic is Professor of Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, and Disability Studies at the University of Windsor.
Other titles by
After Beowulf
Robert Kroetsch
Essayist, Novelist, Poet
Rough Patch
Robert Kroetsch
Essays on His Works
Whelmed
Laurier Poetry Pack #3
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Laurier Poetry Pack #1
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot
By Word of Mouth
The Poetry of Dennis Cooley
