At Lacy Madden’s Grave
For my great-grandfather Lacy Madden on the occasion
of the rededication of Mountain View Cemetery July 10th, 2009
At Lacy Madden’s grave I’m thinking
about the Battle of Vimy Ridge and Hannah Montana,
the pop starlet my daughter dreams of in hues of burnt sugar
and sass. I don’t know for sure if Lacy fought at Vimy
but I do know [...]
Other People’s Lives
Here is one of the great books of 2009. Chris Hutchinson’s Other People’s Lives.
You can read a few of the poems on his blog at: http://chrishutchinsonblog.blogspot.com/
Or watch and listen here: watch?v=A5qOpXxrUPo
But buy the book. It’s a keeper for the bookshelf.
Nightmarker
Next on my list is Meredith Quartermain’s Nightmarker.
From the City of Vancouver Book Award Citation:
Nightmarker demonstrates a wide range of Quartermain’s writerly pallet. The forms she plays with in this book, the anecdote and the prose-poem, provide a stage for the geographical imagination to roam through Vancouver’s historical and physical grounding accompanied by the ghost [...]
