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Czaga, Kayla.
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Canadian poetry -- British Columbia.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Czaga, Kayla.
Canadian poetry -- British Columbia.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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For your safety please hold on / Kayla Czaga.
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Czaga, Kayla.
Nightwood Editions, 2014.
Call #:
819
.16
C998f
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- British Columbia.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780889713031 (pbk.)
0889713030 (pbk.)
Description:
95 p. : portrait ; 21 cm.
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Some copies may be permabound.
Poems.
Summary:
"These poems move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true. The linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering expectations--"She sits. She sips her bright pink fingers. / She slips into smart short haircuts, yes, / she does so, and does herself up just so." While her pin prick meditations on contemporary adulthood suggest a yearning for personal meaning and purpose on a larger scale--"I still wander, sometimes, / my coat closing the world out of my body, with pockets / full of garbage, with my slender steady want. I still / make the bed and at bedtime unmake it." The irrepressible energy of the poems, paired with their complex balancing act between light and dark, humour and melancholy, innocence and danger, make this collection an extraordinary first offering. Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat and now lives in Vancouver"--Provided by publisher.
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Canadian poetry.
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