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Crying Dress

Poems

by (author) Cassidy McFadzean

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Canadian, General, Women Authors
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487012588
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $21.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487012595
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $16.99

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The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

About the author

CASSIDY McFADZEAN studied poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and fiction at Brooklyn College. She is the author of two books of poetry: Drolleries (McClelland & Stewart 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and Hacker Packer (M&S 2015), which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her crown of sonnets, Third State of Being, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2022. She lives in Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

"Cassidy McFadzean is a master of poetic form … Each piece in this romantic and disturbing collection is a little room the reader can visit and return to." — The Miramichi Reader

"Inventive, philosophical, and verbally playful … McFadzean invites readers to the altar of her language." — Publishers Weekly

"The poems in Crying Dress are replete with linguistic play and bravura." — Quill & Quire

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