BOOKS
Lookout, by John Steffler, McClelland & Stewart
by Roger Sauls
31.05.2010
John Steffler is the kind of poet who likes to burrow into a landscape’s least beautiful recesses. Once inside, he’s an unusual tenant, his impulses anything but those of a mystic. When he’s in the kind of terrain that inspires his poems—the rock-strewn topography of Newfoundland, say, or the coasts of the Maritime Provinces—he inhabits [...]
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BOOKS
I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being, Johanna Skibsrud, Gaspereau Press
by Roger Sauls
05.04.2010
According to Chekhov, the listening ear of a horse is receptive to confession, even to the most woebegone among us — especially in cases where humans won’t listen. In his story “Misery,” a cabby, grief-stricken by the death of his son, can’t find sympathy among his passengers; he finds his waiting mare the only open [...]
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