Lookin’ For Joy
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From the widely praised writer comes her fourth collection of startlingly original poetry.
When lookin’ for joy amidst uncertainty,
find in these poems a celebration of the audacity
that stares down the status quo, and refuses the shame
it demands of the survivor.
With a singular range that inspires,
this collection energizes her earlier lyrical narrative
with the sass and verve of spoken word,
and the slap of slam.
“My writing is a search for meaning, beauty, love, an integration of my lost parts.” —Beth Goobie
Poetry 2022 • 6 x 8 inches • PB 119 pages • 9781550969771
Poetry. Women’s Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General
Previous poetry praise:
“Her long lines nearly spill off the page, reaching to the margins with an insistence, an energetic arcing, that pulls poetry towards prose, prose towards poetry.” —Letters in Canada
“I know of no young writer in Canada capable of crafting subtle imagery and delicate phrasing to compare with that found in Goobie’s arresting poetry… Goobie’s work is…starkly, almost self-consciously, original, strewn here and there with the telling detritus (much of it human) of modern popular culture.” —The Globe and Mail
Beth Goobie’s first collection of poetry, Scars of Light, won the 1994 Pat Lowther Award. She is the author of 26 books, including Before Wings (CLA Award, Saskatchewan YA Book Award), The Lottery, The Pain Eater (Snow Willow Award, Saskatchewan YA Book Award), and The First Principles of Dreaming. In 2020, she tied for second in Tonight It’s Poetry’s annual Saskatoon spoken word championship. She was the $5,000 winner in the Established Writer category of the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award (2021).
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