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Poetry Canadian

I Was Expecting Someone Taller

by (author) Sue Nevill

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888783110
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

I Was Expecting Someone Taller is actually a collection of people: working people, old people, street people, famous people–from Josephine Baker to Baryshinikov, a woman "lunching out" with Jesus to a barfly. These poetic portraits are truthful, sometimes tinged with black humour, other times political. Sue Nevill’s people break through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and give us colourful, three-dimensional views of their unexpected natures.

About the author

Sue Nevill is the author of I Was Expecting Someone Taller, and a co-author of Quintet: Themes & Variations. Her poetry has been widely published in such Canadian literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review and The New Quarterly. Nevill's work has appeared in many anthologies, including The Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1993. She is a longtime resident of Vancouver, BC.

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