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Pigeon: Poems Paperback – June 2, 2009

by Karen Solie (Author)

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Launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Karen Solie continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal. Now, with Pigeon, this singer of existential bewilderment takes another step forward. She finds an analog for the divine in a massive, new model tractor and an analogue for the malign in the face of the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez. Her poems are X-rays of delusions and mistaken perceptions, intellectual explorations of bad luck, creeping catastrophe, and the eros of danger come dressed to kill. Her ear is impeccable and her syntax the key to a rare, razor-sharp poetic intelligence. Pigeon expands Solie’s growing readership, making clear to anyone who encounters her that there is still fresh, unmapped territory in the world of poetry. As poet Michael Hofmann said, "Solie’s work should be read wherever English is read."

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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: House of Anansi Press; First Edition edition (June 2, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0887848230
ISBN-13: 978-0887848230
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.5 x 8.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Closing time in the gardens of the West

By Simon Barrett 'Il Penseroso' on March 5, 2012

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- the only/animal who kills from a distance

Guess who?

More accessible than the fractionally less good Modern and Normal - the brief title poem, in fact, the most elliptical of the collection - Canadian Solie here gets close to the ticking heart of North America - or should that be ticking bomb? Bitter humour (Team members/should expect to be called team members), a bleak and sweeping feel for 'the long 20th century' (many things were good/while they lasted), empathy coupled with with alienation (extinction adds value; the infinite patience born of reliance/on mass transit)

In Part III Solie's scientific savvy shades into the merely picturesque, wind farms as minimalist daisies, hanging gardens/of electrical transformers, but 'the horror, the horror' is of course aesthetic as well; a Demonstration Centre..pink to orange in the failing light, like a patient,/worsening. As in Modern and Normal (chilling title!), there's 'nowhere you'd want to walk'. By car, though, off-piste you're 'a criminal/with a small window of opportunity/in the anonymous glory/of the itinerant moment'

This is a poetry of ideas as well as feelings ('drunk as young corn'; our 'one chance on this earth') and, as I hope I've shown, eminently, almost indecently quotable

- ..the available portfolio
- of non-prescription medication expands softly
- as the evening around us

- if you believe it's worse never to have tried,
- then you haven't really tried

- Days of my youth,
- you never appreciated me, and now I'm gone
(shades of 'America I gave you everything and now I'm nothing' without the grandiloquent fakery?)

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Karen Solie, The "It" Girl of Canadian Poetry

By Steven M. Critelli on June 5, 2014

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Karen Solie's poetic intelligence is one of the highest we've ever seen. She has that rare gift of sentient conscientiousness, the deeply felt sense of what is right, that distinguishes all great poets. In a relatively short time, she has garnered two Griffin Poetry Prizes nominations and a win in 2010 for PIDGEON. Hear her read "MIgration" here: [...]. Her work is internationally recognized, as evidenced by our cover photo in the Autumn 2012 issue of Poetry London. Read her poem "The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out" here: [...]. I expect that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg and that her poetry will only get better.

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Four Stars

By Steve Greene on November 5, 2015

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Weird perspective

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