Home of Sudden Service: Poems
Elizabeth Bachinsky
ISBN 10: 0889712123 ISBN 13: 9780889712126
Published by Nightwood Editions, 2006
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD
"Elizabeth Bachinsky is one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human. We should expect great things from her." --The Globe and Mail
Home of Sudden Service is a sad and scary book of punk rock villanelles and sonnets about delinquency.
Set in Anyvalley, North America, Home of Sudden Service centres around the experiences of young people growing up in the suburbs. The contrast of elegant poetic forms with the colloquial, often harsh language of suburban teens makes for a compelling and engaging achievement.
Bachinsky creates a gothic landscape that will be familiar to anyone who's visited the suburbs. Here, young Brownies dance, learn to sew and get badges in a series of eerie rituals, and smalltown girls settle down early. Murder, lust, teen pregnancy and a young man's disappearance are all discussed with a matter-of-fact, dispassionate voice.
But this world is not without humour and hope. Home of Sudden Service concludes with "Drive," a series of fifteen sonnets about the poet's trip across Canada with her sister -- and out of the setting of their youth.
About the Author:
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of six books of poetry, including Home of Sudden Service (2006), which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award, and God of Missed Connections (2009), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the KOBZAR Book Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. She lives in New Westminster, BC, on the traditional, unceded territories of the Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen and Musqueam First Nations where she teaches creative writing at Douglas College.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Home of Sudden Service: Poems
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New