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Kidd, Monica, 1972-
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Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
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Kidd, Monica, 1972-
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
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Actualities / Monica Kidd.
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Kidd, Monica, 1972-
Gaspereau Press, 2007.
Call #:
819
.16
K46a
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
ISBN:
9781554470419 (pbk.)
Description:
58 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Some copies may be permabound.
Poems.
Summary:
"Gathered from its author's wide-ranging experience, Monica Kidd's debut collection includes local legends and personalities, imagined scenarios based on found photographs, lamentations and confessions of love, lyrical studies of medical anomalies, and landscape portraits. Kidd's deft imagery and songlike stride render her subjects in striking, familiar gestures that bring the reader alongside her gait and into her mind's eye. The collection opens with a series of poems that tell stories from Kidd's adopted home in Newfoundland. A drowning, a shipwreck, a community referendum, an abandoned town, a birthday party and other landmark events are relayed in a fashion that relies less on strict narrative account than on associative brush strokes. Infusing her subjects with emblematic strength, Kidd resurrects family tragedies, nights of revelry and community politics in coastal towns. "Found" is a collection of photographs purchased from a second-hand store in Winnipeg and paired with Kidd's imaginative translations of their black-and-white foregrounds into full-colour memories. In one photo a woman surveys a snow-covered field, in another three young girls at the beach squint into the sun. How they got there, where they are going, and the expectations surrounding the captured moment are the poet's invention. Actualities closes with a sequence of "Field Notes" written during Kidd's stay at a biology station on Lake Opinicon in southern Ontario. The notes address fields, woods, ponds, night skies and thunder storms, brought to the page with the country lilt and painterly memory that mark Kidd's work throughout the collection. Monica Kidd grew up on the Alberta prairies. Her previous literary works include two novels (Beatrice and The Momentum of Red), a book of non-fiction (Any Other Woman: An Uncommon Biography) and two collections of poetry (Actualities and Handfuls of Bone). Her short experimental films have shown in Atlantic Canada and in Amsterdam. She has worked as a seabird biologist and as a reporter for CBC Radio, where her news items and documentaries have won numerous awards. Kidd presently lives in Calgary, Alberta, where, as well as writing, she works as a medical doctor and tends to her young family."--Provided by publisher.
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