West Coast settings power new poetry from Tim Bowling and Oana Avasilichioaei
review of feria: a poempark by Oana Avasilichioaei
by Barbara Carey
The Toronto Star
February 8, 2009
The poet's own staging ground is postmodernist, and part of her project involves depicting the "building" of the park as akin to the composition of poetry. De-composition is significant, too. In the sequence "Spirit of the West!" Avasilichioaei quotes from archival sources, undermining the authority of their pompous rhetoric by presenting only fragments of phrases, and in lines riddled with gaps.
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