Home of Sudden Service - Couverture souple

Bachinsky, Elizabeth

 
9780889712126: Home of Sudden Service
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0889712123 ISBN 13 : 9780889712126
Editeur : Nightwood Editions, 2006

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD

Elizabeth Bachinsky is one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human. We should expect great things from her. --The Globe and Mail

Home of Sudden Service is a sad and scary book of punk rock villanelles and sonnets about delinquency.

Set in Anyvalley, North America, Home of Sudden Service centres around the experiences of young people growing up in the suburbs. The contrast of elegant poetic forms with the colloquial, often harsh language of suburban teens makes for a compelling and engaging achievement.

Bachinsky creates a gothic landscape that will be familiar to anyone who's visited the suburbs. Here, young Brownies dance, learn to sew and get badges in a series of eerie rituals, and smalltown girls settle down early. Murder, lust, teen pregnancy and a young man's disappearance are all discussed with a matter-of-fact, dispassionate voice.

But this world is not without humour and hope. Home of Sudden Service concludes with Drive, a series of fifteen sonnets about the poet's trip across Canada with her sister -- and out of the setting of their youth.

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À propos de l?auteur

Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of five collections of poetry: Curio (BookThug, 2005) Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood Editions, 2006), God of Missed Connections (Nightwood, 2009), I Don't Feel So Good (Bookthug, 2012), and, most recently, The Hottest Summer in Recorded History (Nightwood Editions, 2013). Her poetry has been adapted for stage and screen and has been nominated for awards including the Pat Lowther Award, The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and the Governor General's Award for Poetry. She lives in New Westminster, BC.

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Éditeur
Nightwood Editions
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0889712123
ISBN 13 
9780889712126
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
78
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Personne responsable
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