A Lovely Gutting: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #24)
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- Synopsis
- "from this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down." A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness. These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic. Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not found in postcards. Her verse roams an island only half-wild, a ramshackle world of crumbling outports and post-industrial landscapes. In one town, the site of a former US Air Force base, stands a crumbling theatre of "piss-stained crushed velvet seats," the ghost of Mae West still lingering. The ocean no longer spits up cod but the view is strangely sublime. A startling collection from a talented new voice in Canadian poetry, A Lovely Gutting splits open the guts of grief. It is an unflinching meditation on the loss of a culture and a father and on the struggle to preserve and honour what remains.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 98 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780773586840
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780773586758, 9780773539846, 9780773534117, 9780773574458, 9780773577275, 9780773534704
- Publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/02/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.