Started: Feb. 24
Finished: March 26
Pages: 134
I don't read much poetry. When I do, I usually pick modern Canadian poets, and I buy their books. Somebody should: poets need the encouragement.
There's also a practical rationale. I read poetry very very slowly. Memory's Daughter has only 134 pages, and perhaps 100 poems but I started it weeks ago and I'm only on page 64. There's just so much compressed onto every sparsely printed page. The first poem, "Baucis and Philemon" runs for 6 brief stanzas over 2 pages, but comprises a novel's worth of beauty and tragedy.
I finally finished over a month after starting. There are in fact several novel's worth's of emotion and observation compressed into these poems. Recommended.
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