Rooted in the back alleys, squats and psychiatric wards of contemporary Vancouver and Montreal, these unyielding poems enter the intersecting tensions and intensities in characters such as Mike, a panhandler on Vancouver's Commercial Drive, Matthew, a runaway punk, and Dara, a single mother. "Cusp"'s central sequence, however, concerns the tragic life and death of Frank Bonneville, a schizophrenic and drug-addicted artist who became Ms. Owen's muse between their 2001 meeting and his 2003 suicide. Complemented by Karen Moe's ...
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Rooted in the back alleys, squats and psychiatric wards of contemporary Vancouver and Montreal, these unyielding poems enter the intersecting tensions and intensities in characters such as Mike, a panhandler on Vancouver's Commercial Drive, Matthew, a runaway punk, and Dara, a single mother. "Cusp"'s central sequence, however, concerns the tragic life and death of Frank Bonneville, a schizophrenic and drug-addicted artist who became Ms. Owen's muse between their 2001 meeting and his 2003 suicide. Complemented by Karen Moe's haunting photographs of Vancouver's neglected spaces and rejected objects, "Cusp/detritus" is a testimony to an obsession with the lost.
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Moe, Catherine. Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. (CAD) About 6 pages have short pen lines or check marks to the margins, otherwise solid tight copy; thus Good. Wraps, 118pp. These unyielding poems look at the back alleys, squats and psychiatric wards of Vancouver and Montreal. Moe's B&W photos add resonance with images of found objects. (1.3 JM HOQ 101/a3.