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Making strange to yourself

by (author) Audrey Poetker

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888012296
    Publish Date
    Apr 1999
    List Price
    $10.95

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Description

Making strange to yourself beats with a great, raw desire to know and ­experience; the poems rage with truth, sing their steadfast faith in the body, chant their ­incantations, moving us to deeper ­sorrow, greater longing and ­imagination.

About the author

Audrey Poetker has been published in literary journals such as Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, Mennonite Mirror and The New Quarterly. Her second book of poetry, standing all the night through (Turnstone Press), was nominated as McNally-Robinson Book of Year in 1992. She lives on a Manitoba farm and is mother to three dogs.

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