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Incarnate

by (author) Juleta Severson Baker

Publisher
Frontenac House Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Canadian, Women Authors
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897181966
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

The erotic impulse is embodied in Incarnate through a passionate wrestling with image and form. Juleta Severson-Baker wills memory and desire onto the page until “the seduction is complete”. The force of these poems is palpable. Readers witness the poet take a polluted river into her “belly like a snake takes a venomous toad”, experience orgasm as birth, and hike above tree line to ultimately “hear what I came to know”. The poetry in Incarnate is a sensuous plunging into the body. Readers will emerge grateful for the book’s manifestation of experience, and for the human body itself.

About the author

Awards

  • Short-listed, League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardAward
  • Short-listed, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award

Contributor Notes

Juleta lives in her hometown of Calgary, Alberta where she writes, teaches poetry and performance at the Mount Royal University Conservatory, works as a birth doula, and mothers two wonderful children. Her poetry has been previously published in All That Uneasy Spring (a Leaf Press chapbook ed. Patrick Lane), the journals NõD and Freefall, and online at Verse Daily and The House of Blue Skies. In 2010 her chapbook A Hundred Pelts won Freefall press' 20th Anniversary contest for poetry.

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