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The Wide Arable Land,
review by Stephen Scobie, Books in Canada
Carolyn Zonailo's The Wide Arable Land, from Caitlin
Press in Vancouver, is an uneven book, but at its best it offers
poems of great lyric beauty and subtlety. Especially fine is the
closing sequence, "Journey to the Sibyl," in which Zonailo
is able to bring together mythic or surreal symbols with the observed
details of a local landscape. The Sibyl's voice, which has spoken
to poets from Petronius to Eliot, echoes here in the authentic
sounds of the B.C. coast:
only her voice
high in the arbutus leaves
a shriek, winter
in an old wooden building
a moan, as logs rub
against rocks
Against this, one must set such
failures as the over-extended whimsy of "The Red Camellias,"
or the tendency of some of the shorter lyrics to fall off into
weak, generalized endings. But with this, her fifth book, Zonailo
is clearly on the verge of becoming an important B.C. poet.
Copyright by Stephen Scobie: www.carolynzonailo.com,
2004. |
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Wave Goddess |
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| Biography |
| Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Zonailo attended
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| Poetics |
| CZ is a visionary poet who writes with compassion and
careful detail about the world she lives in. |
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| Publications |
 The
Goddess in the Garden combines mystical insight and sensual language
to evoke a timeless meadow where humans and deities play out eternal passions.
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| She draws on her study of mythology, astrology, and
Jungian psychology, for a seemingly inexhaustible source of imagery. |
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| Interviews |
| There is a quality in her work which makes all her
poems hers, but Zonailo’s style does differ. Compendium
is a collection of short, lyrical poetry; Zone 5 of prose. Each
book is an extension of her poetic exploration and a separate expression.
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| Articles |
| Over the years of sitting in Grant's Cafe or the Europa
and talking poetry with Lewis Gretsinger, the questions have been asked:
why write? what are you saying? what are your poetics? |
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| Poems |
Kwaday Dan Sinichi
He is a sign for our times, / a blessing. In the transience / of everyday,
we forget / the history of human life / and cannot see the future. / Now
this forgotten man / lives in each of us / and we are also in action / yet
waiting / to be gathered home, / the future ready to spring / from our bones. |
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| Forthcoming
Titles |
 The
Land of Motionless Childhood is a memoir of short stories by Carolyn
Zonailo about growing up in Vancouver, and her Doukhobor heritage. |
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| Français |
| Venez bientôt ... |
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| Photo
Gallery |
 Pictures
of CZ from her 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. |
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