Crying Dress

Poems

Cassidy McFadzean

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English

House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
10 July 2024

Poetry by individual poets

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean's third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii's modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet's sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

By: Cassidy McFadzean
Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9781487012588
ISBN 10: 1487012586
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 10 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi 2024). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Walrus, and Hazlitt, and in Dead Writers, a collaborative anthology out this fall with Invisible Publishing. Cassidy was born in Regina and currently lives in Toronto, where she is the 2024-2025 Writer in Residence at Sheridan College.

Reviews for Crying Dress: Poems

""Inventive, philosophical, and verbally playful … McFadzean invites readers to the altar of her language."" — Publishers Weekly ""The poems in Crying Dress are replete with linguistic play and bravura."" — Quill & Quire ""Cassidy McFadzean is a master of poetic form … Each piece in this romantic and disturbing collection is a little room the reader can visit and return to."" — The Miramichi Reader