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Catalogue #: 310
ISBN: 0-921870-31-0 paper $10.95
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Description
In her third book Zoë Landale explores the darkened rooms of family
myth and history. She investigates the lives of matrons, suicides, and brilliant
eccentrics from her family's past and probes the power they exert over the present.
Quotes
"Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing
a place of welcome for our ghosts."
- John Newlove
Author's Bio
Zoë Landale is one of Canada's finest poets. Her
award-winning poems, stories, and essays have been widely anthologized. She has an MFA
from the University of British Columbia and works as a freelance editor. She also conducts
online creative writing workshops. Landale lives in Courtney on Vancouver Island with her
husband and daughter. Reach Landale at zlandale@mars.ark.com
Publisher's
Note
A profile of Zoë Landale (taken from An Ear to the Ground):
I met Zoë Landale on a blustery March evening in Bellingham, the old part of town, on a
hillside above the blue-black sea. I found Zoë in the cafe of Village Books, this town's
most widely known bookstore. She had come with her husband to read from her new volume of
poetry, Burning Stone. If the book had been mine, I'd have called it Hot
Rock--which is one reason that Landale is one of Canada's finest writers, whereas I have
chosen to retire from versifying altogether. Those death threats I kept receiving had
something to do with it too.
Landale's husband is a building contractor--I can sympathize--and as I fitted my mouth
around a mass of bean sprouts, he talked about construction work on their side of the
border. Landale and her husband are designing and building their own house on Vancouver
Island, and are raising a daughter. Zoë is hard at work on a new book of essays which she
says involve "family and place."
- Scott C. Davis
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Comments
from Readers
(send to comments@cunepress.com)
"I couldn't get up off the toilet. I had a big
red ring on my
backside....I.suggest finding a more comfortable place to read."
Andrea Craddock, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
"Don't dabble with a poem here and there, take the medicine page one. It's powerful
healing."
Verity Purdy, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
"I was struck by the intensity and honesty of the characters. It gave
a rare look in the characters and relationships in families."
Christopher Bowers, Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
"This book of poems reads like a novel, gripping in plot,
blinding for its beauty. It is a haunting--not scarey like Halloween, but like an old,
"beautiful ghost" from our past that we're trying, trying desperately to
remember--and to love."
Kate Braid, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
"A striking look at family figures--earthy language evoking
strong
emotions."
Alinda Ware, Saratoga Beach, British Columbia, Canada
alinda@island.net
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