Invisible Dogs - Couverture souple

Dempster, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1926829840 ISBN 13 : 9781926829845

Editeur : Brick Books, 2013

Synopsis

Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age

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Invisible Dogs, Dempster's fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive. This is a book for when it hurts so bad you hope you'll die and are afraid you won't - not because it offers consolation or the promise of a new dawn, but because it so compellingly documents the plain, hard, ungraceful, stumbling grief of the matter, and meets it with rare self-knowledge, wry humour, and an unornamented determination to go on living.

Dempster's metaphors are like hairpin turns taken at breakneck speed. He has nerves of steel when it comes to self-examination, and it's this relentless honesty and the emotional torque it induces that keep the voice on the road.

... He scrutinizes
the rearview mirror as if it were a bush about to spring
into flames, the past appearing closer than it really is.
Miles of missing her, those erratic white lines.
He keeps forgetting where he's going - city,
corner store, centre of the universe. No wonder
arrival feels so temporary, like a borrowed bathroom key.
- from He Said/She Said

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barry Dempster is the author of fourteen poetry collections, a novel, two volumes of short stories and a children's book. He teaches writing workshops from Banff, Alberta to Santiago, Chile. His most recent books include Ivan's Birches, Blue Wherever, Dying a Little, and two from Brick Books, LOVE OUTLANDISH (2009) and

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brick Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1926829840
• ISBN 13: 9781926829845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible