01658oam 2200349z- 450 991013612470332120151223084602.097808649280090864928009(CKB)3710000000914895(Perlego)964136(EXLCZ)99371000000091489520190509d2015 uy |engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTwoismicehouse poetry9780864928733 0864928734 Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body's limits and its trickery, you are always in disguise. Sometimes you're Leda; sometimes the swan. The rooms are haunted with gendered injuries of the past... but messengers arrive to guide you. In this stunning debut collection by Ali Blythe, every poem is unerringly built with hatches and escapes. Every line shimmers with life and shivers with fleeting materials. Someone or something is always leaving. The early poems, almost claustrophobic in their double vision, gradually give way to poems of aching beauty, erotically charged by the myth of completeness. Ultimately, whether you emerge or disappear, you are transformed. PoetryCanadian poetryPoetry.Canadian poetry.C811/.6Blythe Ali1976-1247993BOOK9910136124703321Twoism2892799UNINA