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Description
Shortlisted 2009 Lampman-Scott Award
The Luskville Reductions records a year in the life of a small Quebec town and the marriage that disintegrates there. While a book about loss, it is also a book about the state of becoming that coexists with change, the imbalance that for a time makes everything lucid, all the details adding up to much more than only an "us." The visible goes beyond mere facts in these poems, transformed into the deeply seen -- and therefore sacred.
The problem with daylilies
is the usual contemporary twaddle: how is it
we know anything
now that you're gone.
What do you mean
now that you're gone?
What do you mean
daylilies?
Contributor Notes
Monty Reid was born in Saskatchewan, worked for many years in Alberta, and now lives in Ottawa. His books include Garden (Chaudiere), The Luskville Reductions (Brick), and CrawlSpace (Anansi). Recent chapbooks include Kissing Bug (Phafours), Moan Coach (above/ground) and Site Conditions (Apt. 9). He has won Alberta's Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry on three occasions, the Lampman Award, National Magazine Awards, and is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award. He served as Managing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and Festival Director at VerseFest, Ottawa's international poetry festival.
