Double Somersaults by Marlene Cookshaw
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All we can hope for is everything
8.75 x 5.5 Inches | 112 Pages
Publication Date: November 16, 1999
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781894078061
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In Double Somersaults, Marlene Cookshaw writes with an unflinching openness that makes song of vulnerability and of the late twentieth century’s collecting sorrows: “”All we can hope for is everything, I say/ All we are given’s an old pair of shoes.”” These poems are rich with change, with aging parents and lost childhoods, torn relationships and gathering discontent. But Cookshaw’s larger concern is possibility: how we live in and with the world, how we live with ourselves.
Praise for Double Somersaults:
“”Marlene Cookshaw, most excellent of editors, in Double Somersaults, gives us her version. A book full of ‘logic and possibility”” – P. K. Page
About the Author
Born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta, Marlene Cookshaw studied writing at the University of Victoria and later worked for several years as the editor of The Malahat Review. Her poems have won several awards, among them the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize. She has published five previous collections with Brick Books, including Shameless (2002) and Lunar Drift (2005) and in 2008 was presented with the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement in mid-career. She lives on a small farm on Pender Island, one of B.C.’s southern Gulf Islands. Mowing is Marlene’s sixth poetry collection.
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