Pigeon

by Karen Solie

Overview

Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets.

Pigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887849022
Publisher:	House of Anansi Press Inc
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

KAREN SOLIE grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, and The Caiplie Caves–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.

Editorial Reviews

Pigeon...shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired Canadian poets of her generation.

Globe and Mail - Paul Vermeersch

Lyrical but gritty, intellectual but tough-talking, colloquial yet elegant...as she delves deeper into the social and geological bedrock of our civilization. This is [Solie's] strongest book yet. - Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire

Solie has found a technique that others could only envy.

National Post - Richard Greene

Karen Solie has established herself as one of Canada's best lyric poets...Pigeon deals out fearlessness, humour, and raw experience, one killing line after another...Among the arts, poetry has the most human of values, and among poets, few are as deeply human as Solie. Her poems respond to the many ways a day can come to us, while seeming to discover and name new constants of the heart.

NUVO

As much as Pigeon sings with metaphor and language-love, it is also infused with a subtle formality that feels like listening to the echoing footsteps of someone walking by deep in thought...In wilderness, perhaps self-discovery, but also distance and solitude exist. Solie provides all three.

Globe and Mail