Lola
Lemire
Tostevin
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- Published 2007
- Nomados Literary Publishers
- Vancouver, B.C.,Canada
- ISBN 978-0-9781072-4-6
Site-Specific Poems is Lola Lemire Tostevin's ninth book - accomplished, lyrical, incisive, beautiful, it can be read as a series of linked poems, as a book of longer poems, or as one extended poem that questions and examines the "site" of poetry: memory, paper, ink, geography language, nostalgia, the body. Lola Lemire Tostevin acts as poet-surveyor, while mapping out the long poem. Site-Specific Poems is redolent and radiant with the magical light of place without and within writing.
- Published 2004
- The Mercury Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 1-55128-108-2
Writing about the death of one's father or of close friends brings into sharp focus the essential relation between language and death as it was so beautifully expressed on the temple walls of Ancient Egypt.
The journal entries of Cartouches were not written in the usual traditional diary form in which a day's events are recorded. They were, like the poems, "fashioned" as a process of writing through which the writer gives meaning to events that may (or may not) have happened.
"...a fine poetic talent who is able to give us a new relationship to language. "There is a depth of reflection and an honesty of emotion in these poems that make Cartouches a very special reading experience." - Journal of Canadian Poetry
" ...lovely, nape-tingling work. It bears re-reading, it repays the attention given." - Books in Canada
' ... [Tostevin's] Writing is disciplined, lucid, and enormously suggestive. ...[There is] delight ... in words themselves, in the interplay of sound and sense, but there is always a bite behind the play ...' - Journal of Canadian Poetry
- Published 1988
- The Coach House Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 0-88910-323-2
An Italian translation of 'sophie.
"The poetry of Lola Lemire Tostevin crosses cultures - - as witnessed by the voice and music of Billie Holiday, and of Bach, of Einstein and of Pythagoras, of Derrida, of Brossard and of Phyllis Webb,the voice of the woman in the Song of Songs and that of a private I, lived and imagined"
'... confirms her as one of the most intelligent and important poets in Canada today.' - The Malahat Review
- Published 1985
- Longspoon Press
- Edmonton, Alberta
- ISBN 0-919285-34-1
' ... language honed to a fine exactitude; not a word struggles; ... one of the finest examples of the poetry of necessity ...' - Canadian Literature
- Published 1983
- Underwhich Editions
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
Two of the central issues of contemporary Canadian discourse, bilingualism and feminism, are used as metaphors for the struggle we all must make to recover our own personal speech, a way of reaching each other.
' ... a powerful and invigorating performance, a superb book from anyone, but especially as a first effort.' - Quarry
- Published 1982
- The Coach House Press
- Toronto, Ont. Canada
- ISBN 0-88910-255-4
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