Wellwater by Karen Solie comedy humour and angst

humour and angst

This new translation combines five collections

Richly crafted and generous

between the artlessness of childhood and adolescence transfigured inexplicably into a disquieting adulthood

Wellwater by Karen Solie comedy humour and angstWellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, "doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loves ones may speak to us again: "death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, "we don't all know each