Careen - Smart, Carolyn
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Remember Bonnie & Clyde? A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are the stuff of legend--why tell their story again? Chances are you don't know the nuances--their love story and that of their accomplices Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche; their aspirations, conflicts and prayerful natures; and ultimately the sources of their tragedy. At its core, CAREEN is a long poem spoken by the characters, though the voices are companioned by newspaper articles often ironically at odds with the inside story. Smart…mehr

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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Remember Bonnie & Clyde? A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are the stuff of legend--why tell their story again? Chances are you don't know the nuances--their love story and that of their accomplices Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche; their aspirations, conflicts and prayerful natures; and ultimately the sources of their tragedy. At its core, CAREEN is a long poem spoken by the characters, though the voices are companioned by newspaper articles often ironically at odds with the inside story. Smart lets the principal actors relate their own tale--a book of voices speaking out of the desperate Dirty Thirties. we come shinin from the tray as real as fleshed-out fine-boned forms even our shoes flashin, we are some fun jokers are not coarse, cannot lie, do not limp or bleed are kind & funny, desperately in love we are you but better, no denyin fix us there, that moment when you like us, want to be like us --from 'like us: the photographs left behind at Joplin' '...always moving, sometimes chilling...'--University of Toronto Quarterly '[Smart] understands loneliness in all its forms, and writes with a clarity and compassion that is powerfully affecting.'--Anne Michaels
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Carolyn Smart's collections of poetry have been Swimmers in Oblivion (York Publishing, 1981), Power Sources (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1982), Stoning the Moon (Oberon Press, 1986), The Way to Come Home (Brick Books, 1993), and HOOKED: SEVEN POEMS (Brick Books, 2009). Her memoir At the End of the Day was published by Penumbra Press in 2001, and an excerpt won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. She has taught poetry at the Banff Centre and participated online for Writers in Electronic Residence. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry editor for the MacLennan Series of McGill-Queen's University Press, and since 1989 has been Professor of Creative Writing at Queen's University. HOOKED: SEVEN POEMS has become a performance piece, featured at the Edinburgh and Seattle Fringe Festivals in 2013 and at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2015. She lives in the country north of Kingston, Ontario where she and her husband have raised three boys.