The Whole Elephant by Marlene Cookshaw
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Shortlisted 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award
Details illuminating a shifting wholeness on the “singing edge” between dream and waking
8.75 x 5.75 Inches | 80 Pages
Publication Date: January 16, 1989
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780919626447
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Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the “singing edge” between dream and waking. Hers is a quilted language at once covering and revealing our fascinating ordinariness. The long poem “In The Swim” subtly captures the desperate and humourous beauty of a seemingly plain life closely observed. Other poems leap with deftness and daring across the open plain of our lives, leaving images so strong, so strange, they verge on myth.
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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