rump + flank

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781774390290

<p>Carol Harvey Steski’s tenacious and unapologetic debut, <i>rump + flank</i>, explores the body in nature’s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies—especially female ones—endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma.</p><p>These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funhouse mirrors, oysters are whole notes dropped into eternal song, cancer is a surly character taking and discarding lovers, a domestic chore turns dark as a mother channels her inner Lady Macbeth. Lush imagery melds with organic rhythms to spawn a visceral experience, a tendon-and-muscle-driven engine that readers can feel racing within their own bodies.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>Carol&#10;Harvey Steski grew up under the wide Winnipeg sky. Her poems have been&#10;published in the poetry anthology <i>Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem&#10;Anthology</i>, and literary magazines including <i>Room,&#10;Prairie Fire, FreeFall, untethered, Contemporary Verse 2</i>,&#10;and <i>CAROUSEL</i>. Her work was featured in Winnipeg&#10;Transit&#8217;s &#8220;Poetry in Motion&#8221; program and tootled around town on buses. Twice&#10;she was a finalist in <i>FreeFall</i>&#8217;s annual poetry&#10;contest. As a young-adult survivor of melanoma she has been a guest on CBC&#10;Radio-Manitoba speaking about the therapeutic benefits of writing through&#10;disease. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter, working in&#10;corporate communications. <i>rump + flank</i> is her debut&#10;poetry collection. Visit her website: carolharveysteski.com. Connect with her&#10;on Twitter: @charveysteski and Instagram: @carolharveysteski.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;