SubUrban Legends

By Joan Crate ISBN: 9781551119618 format: Paperback pages: n/a publisher: Freehand Books pub. date: 2009-03-12

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Celebrated poet Joan Crate’s fourth book weaves a sequence of poetic revisions and reveries, cleverly colliding suburban routine with subconscious fantasy. The specter of Snow White haunts the corridors of this collection, first as a retro-, then as a made-over fairy-tale reflection of the lives of contemporary women. The poems in Suburban Legends examine family relationships and gender roles with acerbic humour, frank sensuality, wistfulness, and, finally, acceptance, offering a mid-life view of childhood influences and expectations that is both stirring and wise. In Crate’s characteristically intelligent verse, these legends consider what lies beyond youth and the trite promise of “happily ever after,” taking readers to a land of complexity and nuance from which few cultural officiados report.

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