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Synopsis
Poetry. LGBT Studies. A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty- five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory. LAKE OF TWO MOUNTAINS, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the feather-shaped Ile Cadieux, a Trappist monastery on the lake's northern shore. As we are drawn into experience of the lake and its environs, we also enter an intricate interleaving of landscape and memory, a reflection on how a place comes to inhabit us even as we inhabit it.
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About the Author
Arleen Paré is a poet and novelist, author of two previous books. Originally from Montreal, she lived for many years in Vancouver, where she worked as a social worker and administrator to provide community housing for people with mental illnesses. She now lives in Victoria with her partner, Chris Fox. LAKE OF TWO MOUNTAINS is her second poetry collection.
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"When has a body of water said so much, been looked at so many ways, spoken in so many voices? Arleen Pare's 'lake' is an astonishing creation...as multifaceted as light on water." --Patricia Young
"When has a body of water said so much, been looked at so many ways, spoken in so many voices? Arleen Pare's 'lake' is an astonishing creation ... as multifaceted as light on water." -- Patricia Young
"Arleen Pare's Lake of Two Mountains is a poem of sustained beauty, an almost monastic meditation on the overlapping centres of human and natural reality. Whether she is describing the Oka Crisis, bullfrogs, sunbeams or religion, 'anything that passes through [this shape-shifting landscape] is transformed, ' including the reader." -- Jury's comments, The Governor General's Award (winner)
"Lake of Two Mountains has multiple individual poems, and specific lines within those poems, that really strike a chord, but what really impressed me is the way this book's strongest effect was achieved by how it works as a whole." -- Andrea Dullberger, New Pages
"Lake of Two Mountains stands as a remarkably coherent, yet never over-formalized, whole. It is keen-eyed, full of detail and careful construction; there are many pleasures in its language." -- Julian Gunn, The Coastal Spectator
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- PublisherBrick Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1926829875
- ISBN 13 9781926829876
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages104
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