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Saltations
*Longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Award for Poetry
*Shortlisted for two 2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards: First Book and Poetry
Jennifer Still's lyric poetry investigates the ancestral forces and early family memories needed to form the speciation of self. Saltations suggests how we evolve into the complex spirits and personalities of our adulthood, and "where am I now?" becomes a reflective mantra in living.
With textual dexterity and verbal intelligence, Still moves through prairie landscapes, flora, and fauna in intricate metaphors shrewdly worked for their resonance and harmony, and balances their weight with earthy, familiar universals of the human condition. These are poems of unmistakable quality and consistency, poems that herald a significant new poet.
*Shortlisted for two 2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards: First Book and Poetry
Jennifer Still's lyric poetry investigates the ancestral forces and early family memories needed to form the speciation of self. Saltations suggests how we evolve into the complex spirits and personalities of our adulthood, and "where am I now?" becomes a reflective mantra in living.
With textual dexterity and verbal intelligence, Still moves through prairie landscapes, flora, and fauna in intricate metaphors shrewdly worked for their resonance and harmony, and balances their weight with earthy, familiar universals of the human condition. These are poems of unmistakable quality and consistency, poems that herald a significant new poet.
80 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2005
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