Category: review
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Lists, Reviews & Gratitude
I have had reviews. I have had lists. I am unbelievably lucky. And, as I write this I am waiting to hear whether my sister’s pain meds have kicked in. She is in palliative care in Northern British Columbia. I went to see her in October, and it’s not likely I will get back to…
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Interview: MxT
Found this on the CBC. A radio interview from 2014 with the lovely & amazing Sonali Karnick. “Award-winning poet and professor Sina Queyras just published a pretty pink book about a dark topic. “MxT” deals with death and grief but in a lighter way with graphs and diagrams. 11:24. //www.cbc.ca/i/caffeine/syndicate/?mediaId=2443930554
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Reviews, Reviews, Reviews
I am rich in reviews and so thankful for the close reading! The Bullcalf, Arc Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Ben Purkert makes a case for the elegy as selfie. Not what I intended, but he makes a compelling case. Not all elegies, however, are necessarily selfless. Some are self-addressed. Sina Queyras’s M x T…
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Douglas Barbour on MxT
There’s so much more one could say about the various darkling glories of M x T. Let’s just say it’s a brilliant & moving work that, in its contemporary exploration of the continuing power of the elegy, will repay repeated readings & should be on every reader’s bookshelf. Read the entire review here.
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Twitter Reviews of MxT
Kathryn Mockler @themockler Jul 24 Just finished MxT by Sina Queyras @lemonhound So good! Make sure you read this book! Stephen Burt @accommodatingly · Jul 7 @sinaqueyras @coachhousebooks MxT! It’s passionately supergood, circuit diagrams & all. Hope to say so elsewhere soon. Adam Dickinson @AdamwDickinson Sina Queyras’s MxT is an ambitious and fully-realized work.…
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MRB on MxT
Thanks to Bert Almon for the love. The great strength of the book is not in the apparatus – circuit diagrams, tutelary figures – but in the texture. Queyras employs many forms: prose poems, poems in stanzas, representations of postcards, aphorisms (“All mature poets understand the need for dry wood chips”), found poems, concrete poetry. The tour…
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Rain Taxi on MxT
While Queyras acknowledges the limitations of elegiac poetry, she also recognizes its power as a means of communing with the dead. For all its scientific apparatus, M x T is a book of deep feeling. Coming in the summer issue. Thanks so much.
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Malahat Review on MxT
Thanks to Paul Franz for this astute review: The title M×T derives from what Queyras calls “Ohm’s Law of Grieving” (“Feeling = Memory × Time”), one of nine fanciful formulas and mechanical models for representing grief. Crucially, Queyras presents her ambivalence—between the self-contained electric circuit and oceanic openness—as a real one. Her notion of a…
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Globe & Mail on MxT
Globe & Mail, April 25th, The lush vehemence of Sina Queyras’s new poetry collection M x T is as in-your-face as its crazy-pink cover. These poems issue the high-voltage lyric force of mourning songs while bracing themselves against our shuddering in response. Each text is an analogue of how grief convulses through us but –…
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Shannon Webb-Campbell on MxT
MxT by Sina Queyras By Shannon Webb-Campbell Telegraph-Journal April 25 2014 Nothing is large enough to hold grief. Even language fails to contain it. Sina Queyras proposes a formula for grieving in her latest collection MxT, or Memory x Time, what could be this year’s most devastating and enlightening Canadian poetry collection. Known as Lemon…
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