Live Ones (Oskana Poetry And Poetics, 3)

Sadie McCarney's first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada. Ranging from pellet-gunned backyard butterflies to a chorus of encroaching ghosts, Live Ones celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived. Personal myth-making collides with grocery shopping, ancient history turns out to be alive and well in modern-day Milford, Nova Scotia, and the complexities of queer female desire call out to us from beyond the grave. In McCarney's exuberant imagination, the past, present, and future rarely stay where they're put. "Crosses between the quotidian and the fantastical...these poems hook you with the first line." --Kathy Mac, author of Human Misunderstanding

• | Author: Sadie McCarney
• | Publisher: University Of Regina Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0889776504
• | ISBN-13: 9780889776500