Summary
Incisive and intensely felt, Stewart Cole’s striking debut collection reminds us that we too live in an age of anxiety, disoriented by doubt, and up late, compelled to confront the unanswerable. Sirens draw us to the inevitable fact of human suffering, black-winged redbirds perch aloof above our daily commutes, sex denies and drives our hunger for fidelity, and the comet speaks before it strikes.
In an unabashed celebration of intellect and a visceral engagement with our shadowy imp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780864926845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0864926847 |
| Author: | Stewart Cole |
| Publisher: | Goose Lane Editions |
| Imprint: | Goose Lane Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 140mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Icehouse Poetry |
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“Questions in Bed is a quick study, yet it is with multiple readings that the nuance of the verse is revealed.” * Scene *“Questions in Bed considers its questions with verve, in a clear voice that crackles with surprising word collocations and staccato consonance. The poems that spring from this music are much more a singing in their chains than a pointing to the chains themselves.” – A.F. Moritz“Questions in Bed considers its questions with verve, in a clear voice that crackles with surprising word collocations and staccato consonance. The poems that spring from this music are much more a singing in their chains than a pointing to the chains themselves.” — – David O’Meara
About The Author
Stewart Cole
Stewart Cole’s poems, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in the Fiddlehead, Quill and Quire, PRISM International, Studies in Canadian Literature, the anthology Rogue Stimulus, and in a chapbook entitled Sirens. He grew up in the Rideau Valley, south of Ottawa, and has lived in Victoria, Montreal, Fredericton, and Toronto.
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