What if red ran out - Softcover

Grubisic, Katia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864925093 ISBN 13: 9780864925091

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2008

Synopsis

What if red ran out is the assured first collection from one of Canada's finest young poets. Provocative, funny, and brash, the poems in this collection leap from one surprising image to another, from poignancy to an outlandish, teasing delight. The sheer tonal range of Grubisic's poems is remarkable. They shimmer with playfulness yet deepen into contemplative gravity.

These street-smart poems register the pulse of contemporary commodity culture's off-kilter pacing; "the hyena at the bodega," as she calls it. They peer into back alleys of thought and bring forth our fears. But then, all at once, they race down the street again, laughing, reminding us of all we love and how we might hold onto it.

About this title

About the Author

Katia Grubisic's poems and short stories, translations, and reviews have appeared in numerous periodicals, including the Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, Arc, the Antigonish Review, the Croatian Reader, CV2, ellipse, the Nashwaak Review, Grain Magazine, and Matrix. She is presently an editor for the New Quarterly and formerly a member of the editorial boards for Qwerty and the Fiddlehead. Her work has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards and the Descant / Winston Collins Prize for poetry. She presently lives in Montreal.

From the Back Cover

What if red ran out is the assured first collection from one of Canada's finest young poets. Provocative, funny, and brash, these poems vault from one surprising image to another. Here is awe and elegy, recklessness and mischief.

Grubisic tracks our witching hours, peers into back alleys, and brings forward what frightens us. She lingers on the lonely and the lost, but also on the beautiful, reminding us that "when we jump fences we land as we can in our dreams, bionic." The poems beckon, seduce; they ask what we love and how we might hold on to it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864925093
• ISBN 13: 9780864925091
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88