Marrying the Sea: Selected Poems by Janice Kulyk Keefer

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors organization Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award

Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit, patriarchal, filial, expert, and shot-gun. at the love of guys and girls, and of ladies for girls: as neighbors, as moms, as daughters, as doubtful selves; intimate communion with girls dwelling, with their imagined pasts, and with the dead.

Acclaimed writer of leisure Harrow and the fairway Library, Janice Kulyk Keefer brings her passionate intelligencs to undergo at the beauties and perplexities of those so much perennial of human obsessions. The poems are remarkable for his or her alert, musical line up to for his or her diversity and sophistication.

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