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Subject: Re: Mary Dalton -- Interrobang
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:10:24 +0000
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:28:54 +0000, David Dalton wrote:

> On Aug 18, 2024, Kestral Gaian wrote
> (in article <v9smam$2c9m4$1@dont-email.me>):
>
>> On 16/08/2024 06:30, David Dalton wrote:
>>> From http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550656688
>>> (where you can oder the book) :
>>>
>>> Interrobang
>>>
>>> Mary Dalton
>>>
>>> The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the
>>> questioning
>>> and
>>> the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton’s compelling investigations of home
>>> and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection—in extraordinary poems
>>> of
>>> aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites of community
>>> abandoned. The “flared mouth” of Dalton’s acclaimed musicality gives
>>> voice to lost souls and a lost sense of the earth. The collection’s
>>> unique
>>> mix of bleakness and beauty is also reflected in various riddle and
>>> riddle-like series with their ambiguity, open-endedness, playfulness,
>>> and
>>> unexpected linguistic shifts. Interrobang movingly fuses notions of
>>> exploration —of glancing at things slant—with an emotional range that
>>> feels new and visionary. This is a steely, brilliant book from a major
>>> Canadian poet.
>>>
>>> Signal Editions
>>> Poetry 2024
>>>
>>> Mary Dalton’s volumes of poetry include Merrybegot,Red Ledger, and
>>> Hooking,
>>> as well as two prose works: the miscellany Edge and The Vernacular
>>> Strain in
>>> Newfoundland Poetry, a print version of her 2022 Pratt Lecture. Dalton’s
>>> work has been widely anthologized in Canada and abroad. She has won
>>> numerous
>>> awards, including the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for
>>> various others, among them the Pat Lowther Award, the Atlantic Poetry
>>> Award,
>>> and the Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She lives in St.
>>> John’s,
>>> Newfoundland.
>>
>> Thanks for providing such a great review - worth checking out!
>
> It wasn’t a review but a quote from the publisher’s web site,
> but if I find out about any reviews I will post links to them.
> The official launch isn’t until September and I will post
> a notice of it when I get my invitation.

Sounds groovy...