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Synopsis
Penelope waits for Odysseus’s return, so the story goes, but literary tradition tells us little about this act of waiting, an act every bit as epic as her husband’s exploits. In this suite of poems, Sue Goyette steps into the disorienting world of Penelope’s domestic upheaval, a world populated by a swarm of opportunistic suitors, a tempestuous teenage son, a goddess and sundry sentient objects and talking creatures. Written with a wit and a penchant for magic realism reminiscent of both Ocean and The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, Goyette’s Penelope chronicles the human qualities of waiting grief, doubt, depression and anger, but also determination, strength and grace as Penelope breaks her long silence and exclaims her own story.
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About the Author
Sue Goyette has published five previous collections of poetry, The True Names of Birds, Undone, Outskirts, Ocean (winner of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award and finalist for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize) and The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl. She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Earle Birney Prize, the ReLit Award and the Bliss Carman Award. Goyette lives in Halifax where she teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University.
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“A melodic, meditative, clever collection of poems.” Jonathan Ball, The Winnipeg Free Press
“This is a tightly circumscribed collection of poems whose range of experience is, perforce, the insides of one, single and singular woman.... it would appear that the very same muse rousing Homer, seems likewise to have visited this remarkable poet.” David B. Hickey, The Antigonish Review
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- PublisherGaspereau Pr
- ISBN 10 1554471745
- ISBN 13 9781554471744
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages80
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Penelope; In First Person
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Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia, 2017
ISBN 10: 1554471745
ISBN 13: 9781554471744
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 80, 16 p. 20 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Minor edge wear. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has a little wear to the corners and spine ends. Includes the band that describes the work and attaches to the rear cover. A book of poetry by Quebec poet Sue Goyette. Seller Inventory # 4755
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