Lady Bird
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Gilbert writes Lady Bird at the same age that Amelia Earhart was when she disappeared more than eighty years ago – and in the collection of linked poems she asks, in a creatively rhetorical verse conversation to Earhart, one poet to another: “Amelia, where did your bones go…”
Intrinsic to the poetry – and Gilbert’s lines that zoom, 45 bank, stall, vertical bank/glide, dive 38 spiral, tailspin, side/slip, split ‘s’ turn, forward slip/barrel roll, loop inside, loop outside into some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Amelia’s death – is, ultimately, a contemporary exploration of the erasures of women that continues to happen today, especially as they age.
Poetry 2023 • 5 x 7.75 inches • PB 76 pages • 9781990773105
Includes seven images of historical letters and items.
Poetry. Women’s Studies. BISAC: Poetry/Canadian General. Poetry/Women Authors.
Kerry Gilbert lives in the Okanagan, where she teaches Creative Writing at Okanagan College. Her first book, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development, was published in 2005. Her second book of poetry, Tight Wire, was published in 2016. Little Red is Gilbert’s most recent poetry collection, released in 2019. Gilbert has won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer, has been shortlisted for ReLit, for the Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem, the Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest, and the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry for Best Suite by an Established Writer. www.kerrygilbert.ca
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