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The Wide Arable Land,
review by Bruce Whiteman, The Fiddlehead
Carolyn Zonailo's The Wide Arable Land is more
successful in this respect. Like Elizabeth Gourlay's, her poems
draw heavily on nature for their imagery, but Zonailo's work is
tighter and is informed by a more decided sense of direction.
She is occasionally guilty of a too easy calling on the gods:
invocation without evocation—and sometimes she verges on
sentimentality, as in "Le Cadeau," where she writes
of having "watched it [a flower] grow;/ grow visibly before
my wondering/ eyes." At the same time, however, she is capable
of writing some wonderfully spare, rhythmic poems. The best of
these owe something to Williams, perhaps, but there is nothing
derivative about them:
why,
anyway, cherry
trees bloom on schedule
the season returns
on schedule
the heart continues
to pump blood
staring death
in the face
staring it down
skin peels like water
in a boat's wake
Copyright by Bruce Whiteman: 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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 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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| Literary
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