Waterloo Express
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2019
- Subjects
- Canadian, General
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- ISBN
- 9781487006730
- Publish Date
- Apr 2019
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Description
The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles, reissued in a handsome A List edition.
Originally published in 1973, Paulette Jiles’s first collection amazed audiences with its rare depth of texture and verbal dexterity. Her work moves through landscapes that range from Africa to Mexico to Toronto with the ease of a travelling magician. Her swift, intricate metaphors leave the reader breathless, but her work also manages to be straight, earthy, vernacular, and disturbingly perceptive.
About the author
PAULETE JILES was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks and moved to Canada in 1969. She spent eight years as a journalist for the CBC in northern Ontario. She is the bestselling author of Enemy Women, a New York Times Notable Book, and winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Women Writing the West’s Willa Literary Award. She has also won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Paulette Jiles lives in the Texas hill country near San Antonio.
Editorial Reviews
Surreal and vivid . . . these poems of loneliness and the razor’s edge have a quality that’s unmistakable and consistent.
Globe and Mail
[Paulette Jiles] moves through any land, any mood, and is always right there.
Canadian Reader
Fiercely interior and ironic, with images that can move the reader down.
Toronto Star