\u201cKathleen McCracken exhibits an uncommon fusion of poetic, colloquial, incantatory, private and public languages, achieving a resonance marking the best of what a lyric can do.\u201d \u2014Canadian Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMcCracken possesses a keen sense of topic and has developed her own unique way of describing it.\u201d \u2014Books in Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA remarkable economy of thought and language \u2026 reveal the poise of a mature artist.\u201d \u2014Toronto Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her seventh collection, McCracken\u2019s interest in exploring marginal lives and obscured voices \u2013 as introduced in the 2007 release of Mooncalves<\/em> \u2013 moves into intimate, interior territories that are as much metaphysical as they are physical. With the totemic tattoo \u2013 otter, wolf \u2013 and the metrics of flight as governing metaphors, these are poems which make shamanic forays into psychic spaces, charting the creative effort to recover and restore \u201cdeep energies.\u201d As the poet writes, \u201cBy habit I would hunt and delve \/ Worry the meaning of dreams about flight.\u201d A deft exploration of personal and cultural myths.<\/p>\n

When Bob Dylan sang of \u201csteps goin\u2019 down into tattoo land\u201d he might well have been signposting a direct route into the \u201cborderlands\u201d that are McCracken\u2019s natural home.<\/p>\n

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