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Soft Power

English

By (author): Stewart Cole

Watch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.

So drink
As the fanged stoat from the rabbit's nape
As though from a flagon of river water
Shaken with ancestral ash
As if it isn't knowledge you seek
But some osmotic soul-food
To be filled up with blurs
That might later resolve themselves
Into memories
To return to where you really live
With changes in your blood

Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet where generations hence / Inactivists will bathe under a sun made safe / By the collapse of oil-can economics.

Traversing badlands, sandhills, prairies, suburbia, Miami, London, Dublin, Paris, and beyond, Cole's voice revels in questions of travel while resonating with the unheimlich Canadalienation of his expatriate existence. Whether bog surfing, gallery hopping, bug hunting, or meditating on the strange genre of national anthems, the poems in Cole's long-awaited follow-up collection to his critically acclaimed Questions in Bed exist in a searching exchange with the world, both entering and being entered by it.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 165g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781773101088

About Stewart Cole

Stewart Cole is the author of Questions in Bed which Salty Ink named as one of the Dozen Best Books of Canadian Poetry from 2012 as well as the chapbooks Sirens and Alien Freight. He grew up in the Rideau Valley south of Ottawa and spent time living and writing in Victoria Montréal Fredericton London and Toronto before moving to the US Midwest. Cole is now an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh teaching English and creative writing. He may be found at stewart-cole.com. Soft Power is his second full-length collection of poetry.

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