Stereoblind
Author | : Emma Healey |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2018-04-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781487003838 |
ISBN-13 | : 1487003838 |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Download or read book Stereoblind written by Emma Healey and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stereoblind, no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar — where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath & Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects — from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder — to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits.