Short Haul Engine
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Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language. There's a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, tempered with a haunting vulnerability. According to the Griffin Poetry Prize judges this book "stood out for its mix of physical impressions, perceptual strength, and--especially--mental grace. ... Often in her pages, we encounter wisdom of a severity that we would almost rather not know... "Short Haul Engine is not just an exceptional debut, it is an exceptional book."
Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) Shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize The 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book Longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards. Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after another. The writing is clear, striking and open to all sorts of possibilities. Even at their most playful, these poems dive much deeper than initially expected. There's a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, but tempered with a haunting vulnerability that makes even the sharpest lines tremble. from "Signs Taken for Wonders" ...Too delicate for these dog-days, small, clover-blonde, my sister sews indoors. I ask her to fashion me into something nice, ivory silk. I am a big girl, sunburnt skin like raw meat, sweating two pews in front of the Blessed Virgin...
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