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category: Poetry
published: Apr 2015
ISBN:9781770898219
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

by Karen Solie

tagged: canadian
Description

In her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Pigeon, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through the public realm, these poems meditate on the tensile strength of our most elemental bonds and beliefs.

Consistently attuned to the demotic and the enigmatic, she returns our language to us as if new again, in a style somehow both nomadic and steady, both unpredictable and meticulously crafted.

Intelligent, witty, tough-minded, and perceptive, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out offers Solie's most exciting and captivating work to date, in poems of natural contemplation and uncertainty ranging under the aegis of lyric grace.

About the Author
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and raised in southwest Saskatchewan. Her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the BC Book Prize Dorothy Livesay Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award. She lives in Toronto.
Awards
  • Short-listed, Trillium Book Award
Editorial Reviews

…she might be the most technically sound sentence engineer in the country, prose authors included.

— The National Post

…remarkable…[t]here are glimmers of hope in these poems…

— Quill & Quire

Unease is arguably the dominant mood of our cultural moment — and Karen Solie taps into it brilliantly in her fourth collection, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, a follow-up to her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning Pigeon.

— Toronto Star

Solie at her best

— The Globe and Mail

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