Night-Eater

by Patricia Young

Sharp and strong as steel blades, the poems in Night-Eater fuse eerie beauty with gleaming wit, and strangeness with tenderness. In showing the intersection of the mundane and the domestic with the uncouth and uncanny, the author again lives up to such praises as "an artist ... whose sensitivity to language is characteristic of the truly great in poetry" (R. W. Stedingh) and "Young moves in and out of time and worlds, never flagging or faltering and takes the reader with her" (Susan Musgrave). These are "poems to understand life by" (Rick Gibbs).

Genres: Poetry

71 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[Gerry LaFemina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Canadian poet,Patricia Young's book had me sharing its poems for its formal dynamism: her use of repetition is exciting--poems that move like pantoums, poems the move like palindromes, and more give these pages a musicality and energy that surprises the reader. It's rare I pick up a book these days and I think, I want to teach this poem, but there you have it. Time and again Night-Eater had me saying that.

[Tan · Rating 4 out of 5]

found my poetry kareoke entry for the year.