Abandon
by Oana Avasilichioaei
January 2005
77 pages | ISBN: 1-894987-05-5
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A strong debut collection from Montreal poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Abandon is filled with the richness of a country’s history. The poet melds the legends of Romania with its new reality in her vivid and insightful poetry. Dragons rub shoulders with Mountaineers with bad teeth. Women wash carpets in the river, and builders wall women into Monasteries. This is a rich collection and a very promising new voice in Canadian poetry.
Self-portrait
Rubble wounds this valley in a slow funeral song
an owl drowns in a water barrel
and I see your face
white, almost transparent
pasted on a newspaper.
The paper, clipped
with clothes pegs on a string at a news stand,
flaps in the wind.
I think you must be looking at me.
I try to avoid your gaze, turn
my eyes to the hands of a child
playing on the shattered sidewalk –
paralysed toys, stale air.
But the face
my face blowing
in the wind, paper-thin . . .
I am feverish and too alive.
Reviews
- Abandon (Jennifer Boire, Prairie Fire Magazine, 7/6/2007)
- Book Reviews: Poetry (Anita Lahey, Malahat Review, 4/1/2007)
- Abandon (Kris Brandhagen, PoetryReviews.ca, 4/5/2006)
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