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Drolleries
[Paperback - 2019]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771073175 | Pages: 96
Shipping Weight: .125 | Dimensions: 5.78 x .29 x 8.48 inches

The second poetry collection from the award-winning author of Hacker Packer

RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST

Invoking human-animal hybrids in various stages of metamorphosis, Drolleries veers between the beasts of the forest and the opulence of the art gallery. Personal and historical struggles are held against the backdrop of the grotesque and fantastic: A marriage unravels in Goya's Black Room. The diagnosis of a blood-clotting mutation is read through the tarot. The violence of the patriarchy is filtered through the subconscious. In sonically rich lyric poems that traverse the vulnerability of confession and the dramatic possibilities of persona, Drolleries invokes its monsters as a means of working through internal turmoil, existential doubt, and heartbreak. This collection investigates how the lure of romantic relationships, the enchantments of art, and the seductions of power can be both destructive and transformative - and ultimately become a pathway to self-realization.

CASSIDY MCFADZEAN’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Malahat Review, Grain, Arc, Vallum, and The Fiddlehead. In 2012 she published a chapbook, Farwell, and in 2013 she was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize. Her debut collection of poems, Hacker Packer (2015), was a finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Award’s First Book Award, the City of Regina Award, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award. McFadzean was born in Regina and studied at the University of Regina and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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