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The Luskville Reductions
Year
2008
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Brick Books
Summary
A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem. The Luskville Reductions records a year in the life of a small Quebec town and the marriage that disintegrates there. While a book about loss, it is also a book about the state of becoming that coexists with change, the imbalance that for a time makes everything lucid, all the details adding up to much more than only an "us." The visible goes beyond mere facts in these poems, transformed into the deeply seen - and therefore sacred. The problem with daylilies / is the usual contemporary twaddle: how is it / we know anything / now that you're gone. / What do you mean / now that you're gone? / What do you mean / daylilies?