Mating in Captivity (New Canadian Poets) - Softcover

Gunn, Genni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550820672 ISBN 13: 9781550820676

Publisher: Quarry Pr

Synopsis

Mating in Captivity is a disturbing and powerful as a recurring dream. The poet conjures up memories of her romantic childhood in Italy -- a charismatic father often absent on secretive business, a loving mother who consoles her family with art -- and translates this relationship into her own experience of searching for genuine love. Like whooping cranes that must be taught how to mate when born in captivity, Genni Gunn offers us a vision of how to make love within the constraints of our arid society.

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Review:

...a self-documentary poetic cycle comprised largely of prose poems... Realism and surrealism alternate as the speaker confesses to the distances ...between herself and others, between her conscious life and inner self... -- Canadian Literature, 1996

'Variations of Silence' works especially well, with its combination of sharp images, sensual detail and emotion . . . Unified metaphor transforms this dense work into something resonant...
--UBC Chronicle, 1994

About this edition

• Publisher: Quarry Pr
• ISBN 10: 1550820672
• ISBN 13: 9781550820676
• Binding: Paperback