- Paperback: 78 pages
- Publisher: Stride Publications (Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905024002
- ISBN-13: 978-1905024001
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 14 x 0.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,876,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The dreadlocks of polar bears; the atomized droplets of an underground waterfall; oranges as an offering to the dead; a purple hippopotamus wading pool in a strip club; hoar frost and aurora borealis and bail bondsmen and road kill: Joanne Merriam's inaugural collection of poetry catalogues morsels of experience. The Glaze from Breaking overflows with lovely, vivid poems about the aftermath of a breakup, and the redemptive power of travel, nature and love. Her language charged with verbal energy, Merriam has crafted a moving portrait of a woman who is saved by her close observation of the everyday wonders of the world.
'Merriam uses language to shift the reader's attention... to the surprising and ironic, yes, to something lovely, letting the poem deliver a fresh shock: 'A word for the sound plants must make at the moment they break the soil. See / how your fingers curl tight as fiddleheads and your whole body smells / green. The glaze from breaking.' Merriam's long lines ... can convey not only imagery, but dramatic movement, and ironic emphasis simultaneously.' Philip Miller, Literary Magazine Review
'Memory, tenderness, and its flip side 'estrangement' - these are key themes in Joanne Merriam's exquisite poems. With an accomplished lyric ear and eye, Merriam's images soar through her verses and prose poems like plants flinging their spores. The city is always in the frame yet, out of the window, lies the natural world; a beautifully rendered amphitheatre in which the poet explores personal relationships and the relation in which we stand to the world. Merriam's emotional honesty, combined with her convincing, startling images, will transport you.' Andy Brown
About the Author
Joanne Merriam was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1973 and now lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA with her husband and pet rabbit. Her writing has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, Dandelion, Event, Feux chalins, The Fiddlehead, Grain, On Spec, Orbis Quarterly International, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Journal, Prosodia, Quarry, Room of One's Own, Strange Horizons and Vallum, and the anthology Ice: new writing on hockey. She is a professional member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and can be found online at joannemerriam.com.
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Joanne always seems to find the perfect turn of phrase to write what most of us can only dream of being able to express.
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This title is available from amazon.co.uk. My publisher does not have a North American distributor, so unfortunately it must be ordered from overseas.
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