Karen Solie’s forth collection of poems, The Road in Is Not the Same Road Out, was published in 2015. A volume of selected poems, The Living Option, was published in the U.K. in 2013. Born and raisied in Saskatchewan, she lives in Toronto.
Mortar
Karen Solie
Mortar, the stuff that binds the aggregate, is itself a composite substance, and similarly composite is my foundation as a writer. I find that final phrase discomfiting for reasons I’m not altogether clear on, but in part because I suspect . . .
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The Review: The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis
Karen Solie
Recently, a friend loaned me two of Janet Lewis’s novels, The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Sören Qvist, published in 1941 and 1947 respectively. The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, published in 1959, completes a trilogy . . .
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For C. D. Wright
Karen Solie
I remember very clearly when I first read C. D. Wright. A dim winter afternoon in Edmonton, 2005, in Audrey’s Books on Jasper Avenue. Browsing the poetry section, I picked out Deepstep Come Shining. Knew I’d buy it before . . .
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A Conversation with Ken Babstock
Karen Solie
An excerpt