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Cast from Bells |
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Subtle and surprising poems connecting the use of bells in wartime with shifts in the nature of affection.
"from a collection of angry groans / to unfilled witness / waiting to hold the troubled heart's / understanding in a different way"
During the Second World War, bells throughout Europe were taken from their towers and used to make munitions. At the end of the war, many of the bells were recast and restored to their heights. In Cast from Bells, Suzanne Hancock dramatizes how the same substance in one form gathers a crowd with its ringing, but in another shape scatters people and creates disorder.
Balancing the bells of the past with the personal life of the present, these poems offer an intimate look at a woman leaving her husband. Against the backdrop of history, honest glimpses of a relationship's ruin reveal surprising connections between the exalted and mundane.
Cast from Bells tells a story about people and things dividing and uniting, and the sounds and spaces between bells and bullets.
During the Second World War, bells throughout Europe were taken from their towers and used to make munitions. At the end of the war, many of the bells were recast and restored to their heights. In Cast from Bells, Suzanne Hancock dramatizes how the same substance in one form gathers a crowd with its ringing, but in another shape scatters people and creates disorder.
Balancing the bells of the past with the personal life of the present, these poems offer an intimate look at a woman leaving her husband. Against the backdrop of history, honest glimpses of a relationship's ruin reveal surprising connections between the exalted and mundane.
Cast from Bells tells a story about people and things dividing and uniting, and the sounds and spaces between bells and bullets.
Details
Part of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series (number 21 in series)
72 Pages, 5 x 7.5
ISBN 9780773537200
March 2010
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"This is a brilliant conceit ... it [is] clear that Hancock is not just a poet who hit on a lucky formula through the story of the bells of Europe: she has metaphorical reach of her own. The formal variety of the book and the richness of the language make this a strong collection. She can spread lines in patterns over a page; she can also write a good sonnet." Montreal Review of Books
"Suzanne Hancock strikes an exquisite imagistic tolling in her second collection, Cast from Bells ... In wide, chiming, vivid strokes, Hancock casts beautifully the struggles of aloneness in a refined lyrical light." Winnipeg Free Press
"Suzanne Hancock strikes an exquisite imagistic tolling in her second collection, Cast from Bells ... In wide, chiming, vivid strokes, Hancock casts beautifully the struggles of aloneness in a refined lyrical light." Winnipeg Free Press
Suzanne Hancock has taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is the author of Another Name for Bridge. She lives in Montreal.
