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Here at the Crux
This is a poetic journey of family and landscape and their interconnectedness. The "scent of humanity" weaves its way gently through the pages with an eloquent ease that wraps the reader in a cocoon of comfort. Here at the Crux embraces the intergenerational legacies of an immigrant grandmother's exchange of "hymns for sad ballads". It carries us into the uncertainties of the recent past and present with "choices shrinking every day." A poet's words taste of cinders and rats eat the philosophy book. Here at the Crux is filled with careful observation and a tender regard for our frailties. It's a poetic journey of vivid stories, rich in truth telling and life brought full circle.
Book Details
- Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
- Publish Date: Aug 3rd, 2022
- Pages: 82
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.17in - 0.27lb
- EAN: 9781774032312
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Boschman, Leanne: - Leanne Boschman's poems have been published in Geist Magazine, Prism, Other Voices, Dandelion Magazine, Room Magazine, Arc Poetry, and Grain. Her poetry collection Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal was published by Leaf Press in 2009; in it, she explores colonial narratives of settlement and the lived experience of women in labour markets and domestic settings. She completed her PhD in the Languages, Cultures, and Literacies program at SFU and has worked as a curriculum developer and educator for several BC post-secondary institutions. Born in Saskatchewan, she presently lives on Vancouver Island on the traditional territories of the Cowichan Tribes and Malahat Nation.
Praise for this book
Leanne Boschman's book delights us with a mature artist's skill with language and command of subject matter. It embraces the intergenerational legacies of an immigrant grandmother's exchange of "hymns for sad ballads" and the "raw pulp of regret" from harsh punishments, but also the gifts we pass on like "brown woollen slippers." It carries us into the uncertainties of the recent past and present with "choices shrinking every day." A poet's words taste of cinders and rats eat the philosophy book. Here at the Crux is filled with careful observation and a tender regard for our frailties. It's a poetic journey of vivid stories, rich in truth telling and life brought full circle. Adrienne Drobnies, author of "Salt and Ashes" Leanne Boschman's second book of poetry, "Here at the Crux" begins with birth-her own-and ends in a lovely Morning Fog, "the dewpoint of my day". In between are poems celebrating family stories, disasters including the pandemic, and the slow hopeful return of new beginnings. Tender and evocative, she writes about her mother's cancer, "a red bag of hair in the closet", her grandmother's emigration from Ukraine, uncles and fathers and long-ago friends. "We press our ears against these stories", and reflect how the past impresses the future. The second section, "An Unsparing Season", recounts days of lockdown, cougar attacks, prairie blizzards, dust and fog: "a lowland of grief". Ending in a section titled "Sing Only of Return", Boschman offers poems of humour and of hope - a rat eating her philosophy text, Sylvia Plath in a dress of kelp, meditations on writing and her love of words like pautsche-a love of both language and her own history. Read this book. Immerse yourself in these "darkgreen songs" of family and landscape, poetry and hope. Barbara Pelman, author of "Narrow Bridge"