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Wells
Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form that positively crackles with imagery and rhythm. Identities and memories flow and flicker as she strings together fragments of narrative into stories that comprise one woman's life. It entwines her disappearing life with that of the persona of the woman's granddaughter through a choreographed confusion of identities: of she's and I's. Few poets could execute this with convincing solemnity, while simultaneously recovering the dignity of the sufferer and her loved ones. Butler does. Poetry lovers, critics and scholars, and readers who crave a deft style charged with honest emotion should read Wells.
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Jenna Butler,  Author
Jenna Butler was born in Norwich, England in 1980. She has edited more than thirty books of poetry in Canada and England, and is the author of six short collections, in addition to an award-winning trade book from NeWest Press, Aphelion. She is currently finishing a trio of new short collections: Spindle, Love Letters, and Songs for a Broken Season. Butler is the founding editor of Rubicon Press and teaches Creative Writing and Literature at MacEwan University in Edmonton during the school year. In the summer, she and her husband live with three resident moose and a den of coyotes on a small organic farm in Alberta’s north country. Visit her online at www.jennabutler.com.
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Wells 2012
Wells 2012
Wells 2012

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