Re: Mary Dalton -- Interrobang

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 5:30:11 +0000, David Dalton wrote:

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From http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550656688
(where you can oder the book) :
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Interrobang
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Mary Dalton
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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.
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Signal Editions
Poetry 2024
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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 the heads up, sounds like an interesting read.