Splitting Off

byTriny Finlay

March 23, 2004|
Splitting Off by Triny Finlay
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Triny Finlay's debut collection of poetry is a meditation on the self's negotiation with the material world. Finlay pushes poetic form and language, creating images of love and loss that are at once playful and profoundly disturbing. The poems in this collection are rife with metaphorical leaps and unexpected associations: the troubled self as conjoined twins or as a flatiron building; the predatory lover as axe-wielding gardener; coming-of-age as a surgical procedure. Blurring the line between subject and object, the voices in these poems explore individual experience from multiple points of view, never privileging any one possibility. These voices fill the book with startling discoveries of conflict and hope, simultaneously stitching and ripping the fabric of female identity.
Triny Finlay was born in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of Splitting Off (Nightwood, 2004), Histories Haunt Us (Nightwood, 2010), and the chapbook Phobic (Gaspereau, 2006). Her poetry has been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2: Canada''s New Poets, Qwerty Decade, and Gaspereau Gloriatur: Book of the Bless...
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Title:Splitting Off
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:88 pages, 7.5 X 5.25 X 0.25 in
Shipping dimensions:88 pages, 7.5 X 5.25 X 0.25 in
Published:March 23, 2004
Publisher:Nightwood Editions
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780889711983

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