Slender Human Weight

by Sue Chenette

In Slender Human Weight, Sue Chenette explores a world both familiar and mysterious. She finds, in her mother's attic, in the French countryside, and in her own home, the richness of physical objects as they embody what is felt, dreamed, longed for, and remembered.

76 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Sue Chenette, a classical pianist as well as a poet, grew up in northern Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972. She is an editor for Brick Books, and the author of Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions, 2009), The Bones of His Being (Guernica Editions, 2012), Clavier, Paris, Alyssum (Aeolus House, 2020), and the documentary poem What We Said (Motes Books, 2019), based on her time as a social worker in Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Her chapbooks include Solitude in Cloud and Sun, A Transport of Grief, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001. Her book So That We Might Finger the Words: The Biography of Eleanor Jones Bussey was published by Aeolus House in 2023.

Reviews

[noz4nin · Rating 4 out of 5]

“my sentences gave out.
all that was left,
before we said goodbye:
to sit with you
quietly
and let you be
as you would be”