Rove
by Laurie D Graham
Paperback (Strike Fire/Poetry)
8.5" x 5.25" · 88 pages
Release Date: September 2013
ISBN 9781926710235
by Laurie D Graham
Paperback (Strike Fire/Poetry)
8.5" x 5.25" · 88 pages
Release Date: September 2013
ISBN 9781926710235
by Laurie D Graham
Paperback (Strike Fire/Poetry)
8.5" x 5.25" · 88 pages
Release Date: September 2013
ISBN 9781926710235
This fast paced book of poetry explores the ways we can exist meaningfully, through the stories, experiences, and memories of parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. This work looks at the colonial settlement of the prairies through the lens of a single family line. From prairie life, Rove then enters the vast and monotonous suburban environment. Laurie D Graham also recounts an experience with memory loss as a means of understanding the evolving relationship between a mother and a daughter.
What might best define Rove, is its compelling voice and the breadth of its vision. Graham gives us a voice that speaks to the reader directly and simply, and she articulates at various points a large swath of historical time in order to create a picture of a place, or simultaneous places and how they exist together in the mind, memory, and make-up of an individual.
Laurie D Graham
Laurie D Graham grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and now lives in Toronto, where she is a poet, teacher, and assistant editor of Brick, A Literary Journal as well as an instructor at Humber College. Her poems have appeared in Carousel, CV2, Event, FreeFall, The Malahat Review, Room, Other Voices and subTerrain.
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