Into the Rhubarb

Carla Coles

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"Into the rhubarb: headed off the road; to get into trouble; a brawl, argument, or squabble."

In her fifth volume of poetry, Carla Coles once again brings us into her inimitable inner world. This time, along with her odes to the pleasures of coffee and cake and writing, she delves into the darker emotions of betrayal, endings, and coming through the fire with her sense of humour intact and her gift with words honed to a new level of insight.

"Whether the subject matter is painful, wonderful, chaotically confusing, or simply the inappropriating of her own kaleidoscopic inner culture, Carla's perfectly parsed insights are never anything less than a delight. And sometimes there's a sly lesson about how to be human in an inhuman world." Bruce Barber, author of Jetsam: New and Collected Fictions

Book Details

Publisher: Storeylines Press
Publish Date: Nov 13rd, 2022
Pages: 194
Language: English
Edition: Into the Rhubar - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.45in - 0.50lb
EAN: 9781738274765
Categories: • Canadian• Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss• Women Authors

About the Author

Coles, Carla: - "Carla dwells in the magical realm ofStratford, Ontario. She admits to being a littlein love with her community. She is an awardwinningmultidisciplinary artist, author, andentrepreneur.This is her !fth book of poetry. Her !rst book, much to Carla's surprise, was number one inCanadian poetry for a brief time. Carla is amember of Stratford's Art in the Park. She -along with her partner, Leigh - run the famed The Little PrinceCinema, recognised by Guinness World Records as the world'ssmallest cinema.Carla, by her own accounts, is not a believable character. She has anunnatural fondness for pudding and always carries a cake fork withher in case of just such emergencies. Queries on whether she wantsanother co"ee are always answered with an enthusiastic yes. Carlalikes to think she is hilarious ... Carla's friends have said they think it'sendearing that she !nds herself hilarious."

Praise for this book

"Artistic polymath Carla Coles once speculated that her third volume of poetry, 2018's PORE, might be the last of her 'oddly specific collection of poems for a tiny niche audience.' Luckily for that 'niche audience' (no longer so tiny), it was not to be her last hurrah. The book you're holding, INTO THE RHUBARB, brings us an almost overwhelming collection of new poems which continue Carla's mission (one of her missions, anyway) of sharing with us her unique, sometimes eccentric, always fascinating, observations and conclusions about the universe around her and within her. Whether the subject matter is painful, wonderful, chaotically confusing, or simply the inappropriating of her own kaleidoscopic inner culture, Carla's perfectly parsed insights are never anything less than a delight. And sometimes there's a sly lesson about how to be human in an inhuman world."

Bruce Barber