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Monologue Dogs
Year
2015
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Brick Books
Summary
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year -- and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author. Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as the characters who speak. Setting the lyric against street argot, archaic language against deflating or ironic feints, metaphors against declarative sentences, the elegiac against the ribald, classical or literary allusions against anachronistic references, these monologues reflect our own disordered subjectivities.