{"product_id":"drolleries-isbn-9780771073175","title":"Drolleries","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second poetry collection from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHacker Packer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvoking human-animal hybrids in various stages of metamorphosis, \u003ci\u003eDrolleries \u003c\/i\u003eveers between the beasts of the forest and the opulence of the art gallery. Personal and historical struggles are held against the backdrop of the grotesque and fantastic: A marriage unravels in Goya's Black Room. The diagnosis of a blood-clotting mutation is read through the tarot. The violence of the patriarchy is filtered through the subconscious. In sonically rich lyric poems that traverse the vulnerability of confession and the dramatic possibilities of persona, \u003ci\u003eDrolleries \u003c\/i\u003einvokes its monsters as a means of working through internal turmoil, existential doubt, and heartbreak. This collection investigates how the lure of romantic relationships, the enchantments of art, and the seductions of power can be both destructive and transformative - and ultimately become a pathway to self-realization.“Cassidy McFadzean’s \u003ci\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/i\u003e evokes magic and vivid detail . . . Rarely does a poetry collection do such a cogent job of combining world-building and specifics. In \u003ci\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/i\u003e, McFadzean comes into her own as a metaphor maker. . . . A must-have for its technical skill and lyrical brevity.\" --\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There’s a lushness in \u003ci\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/i\u003e, an opulence; even the shortest lyrical pieces are dense with detail. Sometimes the collection’s tone turns nearly documentary, illuminating minutiae with an art historian’s fervor. If McFadzean’s catalogues and descriptions occasionally veer toward the extravagant, it’s not due to a lack of self-control (the poems are, in fact, admirably precise and restrained). Rather, McFadzean seems to want to demonstrate the difficulty of packing the too-much-ness of it all—the feelings, the grief, the regret, the terrible beauty—into easily digestible pieces. The poems strain at their seams, larger than life, their beasts threatening escape. . . . a collection to read many times over.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003ci\u003eCanadian Notes and Queries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCASSIDY McFADZEAN was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2015, she published \u003ci\u003eHacker Packer\u003c\/i\u003e, which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in magazines across Canada and the U.S., including\u003ci\u003e BOAAT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrelude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePRISM international\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArc\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been finalists for the CBC Literary Awards, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Prize, and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award. Her work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry 2016\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Wascana Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn Fine Form 2\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Toronto.Saturn Return\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore carving reindeer, walrus tusks,\u003cbr\u003ebefore horses painted on cave walls,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eall most early humans did was fashion\u003cbr\u003eaxe heads from hunks of chalcedony,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ejasper, and flint, cryptocrystalline quarried\u003cbr\u003eand hauled to the carving site. We worked\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eobsessively, breaking blocks of basalt\u003cbr\u003einto hammerstones in teardrop shapes,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebeating rock against rock, lithic flakes\u003cbr\u003efalling like snow, layering skin with ash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas it ritual, pragmatic, a nervous tic?\u003cbr\u003eOne of us strayed from the carving site.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother pulled a clamshell in two,\u003cbr\u003eand found an iridescent whorl not unlike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe wash of green when we gazed\u003cbr\u003eat the night sky. I wanted to hold him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elike a brother, this artist, when I saw\u003cbr\u003ehim sleeping in the loam, but flattened\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto the bog he appeared so lonely.\u003cbr\u003eWere we all this alone? It was the sky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethat called us forward, to depart\u003cbr\u003eour planet’s terrarium to celestial spheres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stars that lent us these atoms\u003cbr\u003ewould take our flicker of energy within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe’d be calmed in our coming home,\u003cbr\u003elike holding a slab of rock perfectly fitted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto our hands’ flesh and striking stone.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301819797733,"sku":"NP9780771073175","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771073175.jpg?v=1767725726","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/drolleries-isbn-9780771073175","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}