Dunk Tank - Czaga, Kayla
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"In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga's sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience - hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape, full of cancers that "burst like blackberries;" a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada; and the Cerberus-like sultry eyes of Winona Ryder's pores. In Dunk Tank, clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These are poems of…mehr

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"In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga's sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience - hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga reimagines the body as a strange and unknowable landscape, full of cancers that "burst like blackberries;" a butt that could run for prime minister of Canada; and the Cerberus-like sultry eyes of Winona Ryder's pores. In Dunk Tank, clouds become testicles and uteri turn into goldfish, flickering and fragile, but still ultimately glowing. These are poems of friendship, lingerie, sex, and longing. Not knowing how the world works, Czaga forges a landscape of metaphor and gleaming, dense imagery. Dunk Tank is playful and dark, comic and disturbing."--
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KAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections¿For Your Safety Please Hold On, and Dunk Tank. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General¿s Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry series, her writing also appears in The Walrus, Grain, Event, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, also known as the Esquimalt and Songhees nations (Victoria BC).