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Join us on Wednesday at Mahone Bay’s Biscuit Eater Cafe and Bookstore or on Friday at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia for the book launch of Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier.
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The following is excerpted from the Arc Poetry review of Wavelengths of Your Song.
On rare mornings
you hold one of my dories,
perfectly formed, in your
palm and you float
with me: on those
blue-bright days
you are the song.
How fresh “blue-bright” reads, compared to “bright blue”! To me, this subtle musicality encapsulates the appeal of the poems. Though mostly spare and unfolding in disciplined stanzas, they feel euphonic because of their fluidity. They create emotionally laden dream worlds where vivid, often surreal, images shift seamlessly, taking us to unexpected places. “Gardening,” for instance, opens in a high-priced restaurant—“We eat flowers with each course. For dessert / the waiter explains in his almost perfect / English that the purple flowers are violins”—but soon we realize that the restaurant is a tomato greenhouse. The poet then recalls her father’s garden—hard-won carrots essential for survival—and concludes, “Hunger does not taste / like violets, and has no notes for the singing of songs.”
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