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Her essay In Praise of Smaller Servings will also raise eyebrows. She argues that Canadian books by individual, unknown poets are "a form that alienates readers and buyers" and that such collections are "mostly over-long."
Many of the poems here are delicate, linguistically intricate observations of nature. Skunk Cabbage, for instance, describes "the foul magenta of its gorgeous heart," and Bee Balm observes how "All night they cling sybaritic as pashas,/ Their stiff golden fur dampened with pleasure."Frederick Seidel, a New Yorker of the traditional snooty kind, is another poet in this anthology who's worth getting to know. The Griffin jurors quote him writing "civilized is about having stuff," and "too much is almost enough."See the full content of this document
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Poet has a Few Surprises Up Her Sleeve
By Maurice Mierau
MONTREALER Robyn Sarah's Little Eurekas: A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry (Biblioasis, 272 pages, $25) is stimulating and fiercely articulate.Sarah has published four full-...See the full content of this document
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