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Against Paradise by Shawna Lemay

Against Paradise by Shawna Lemay

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Shawna Lemay’s rich, amused, insistent, ingenious meditation on Venice will surprise readers with its peculiar grace. Here is the work of an elegant raconteur; a self-effacing, sharp-eared occupier of voices; a high-toned, compassionate gossip. From many mouths, she offers us the city, doomed, full of light.

Lemay’s Venice is a small, crowded community of the delightfully eccentric dead. Through her quirky dramatic monologues, each one shimmering with a companionable intelligence, we meet them – George Eliot, Peggy Guggenheim, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Effie Ruskin, Ernest Hemingway, Titian, various unnamed others; we meet them in mid-speech; it seems they have never stopped talking, talking, telling now (or refusing still to tell) their secrets, protecting their vanities still, finally saying what they truly think. Lemay has given us an entire world, dark, haughty, watery, beautiful, full of voices, sedimented with stories.

Shawna Lemay lives in Edmonton. She received a B.A. in Honors English from the University of Alberta in 1995.

Her first book of poems, All the God-Sized Fruit (1999), won the Gerald Lampert and the Stephan G. Stephansson Awards in 1999. Her second book of poems, Against Paradise, was published in 2001.

9780771052279
Paperback , Trade
English
General Trade
Feb 15, 2001
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