NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW
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 VANNA TESSIER: PEPPERMINT NIGHT Broken Jaw Press Box 596 Stn A, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A6, Canada ISBN 1 896647 83 9 $13.95 [Canada; $10 USA] email Broken Jaw Press visit the website of Broken Jaw Press' Website        Web design by  This page last updated: 11th December 2007. |
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Unusual shape — almost square — but a terrific collection of poetry. Vanna Tessier has an amazing range, from the cosmic sweep of the opening poem, MOONSCAR: a constellation's dare flagging down Sagittarius sharpening Cupid's arrow its cue incandescence etched against our midnightright back down to earth in PACK A DAY, in which a bully shoves his way to the front of the queue so he can buy his cigarettes: he chews at the cig a weapon dangling from the corner of his mouthVanna Tessier has the true poet's ability to make poetry out of anything, snapshots of life — a rock group in JAMMING: the guitarist kneels by the drums doesn't belong here on earthor a visit to an ancient site in A POMPEI PILGRIMAGE: a girl alone in her bed her dream trapped by molten lava an abandoned nightmare biting into raw stoneor a man at home in his environment, IN BROWN LACED-UP BOOTS: it's up to him to climb the steep slope that leads to the top the horse shakes its mane & neighs its tail whips the rancher's face boots squish dripping water everything's going his way todayI don't think there's a duff poem in this excellent collection — it looks pretty good, too. | ||
| reviewer: John Francis Haines. |