These poems travel along a ragged b-line from the banks of the frozen Yukon River to the sun-blasted hinterlands of Barcelona, and all the way to the "cat?s cradle? of the ring-roads in Beijing. In A
These poems travel along a ragged b-line from the banks of the frozen Yukon River to the sun-blasted hinterlands of Barcelona, and all the way to the "cat?s cradle? of the ring-roads in Beijing. In A Violent Streak, anxiety, ritual, the inertia of family trauma, expatriatism and sexual politics collide, testing the virtue of flight, haste and distraction. Here the poet compulsively overhauls and fractures her sense of
self, revealing that between blithe stabs at domesticity and endless flat shares, the ?fabled Spanish light, like powdered glass, begins to wear her down..."
Stephanie Warner was born in Kamloops, and grew up in British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon. Her poetry has appeared in the Montreal Poetry Prize Global Anthology, and was awarded second place in the 2015 Prism international poetry contest. She lives
in Vancouver.
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