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Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards\n\nSlovenly Love is Meira Cook's third book of poetry. A Fine Grammar of Bones and Toward a Catalogue of Falling, both collections of lyrics, are now joined by a fascinating long poem composed of five sequences. \"A Year of Birds\" sensuously explores erosion of self in the gain of new life in motherhood; \"Blue Lines\" concerns a woman and her double, the imperishable self she \"left\" to become the self she is; \"Trawling: a biography of the river\" introduces Heraclitus into the Winnipeg Flood of 1997, the Red River becoming a river of the mind; \"Kiss by the Hôotel de Ville,\" an extended meditation on varieties of dislocation between art and reality, focuses on Robert Doisneau's famous photograph of the same title; \"Tempestuous\" is a passionate, Miranda-centred reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Each sequence is distinct, but together they explore a life of gap, fragment, flux. \"Ah swift-winged youth,\" says a voice in \"Trawling,\" \"the world is, was, and ever will be full of wonder.\" Slovenly Love, in its exhilarating renovation of words and forms, gorgeously confirms that. |
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