September 2011
100 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-57-8
$17.00
David Groulx’s latest collection offers his readers a handful of poems as cutting and brilliant as glass shards, offering glimpses of the anger, pain and lost beauties of his ancestors. These poems cut deep with their clear-eyed honesty, their stripped away pain and suffering. A subtle weaving of black humour and fleeting touches of beauty, as well at the careful craftsmanship of the writing make these poems iconic. This is a collection that should not be missed.
Reviews
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Review (Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Black Coffee Poet, 1/16/2012). "Groulx’s poems were beautiful, well crafted, they captured everyone’s attention, and they were also hard to listen to. Poems about the assault on Mother Earth, white on red racism, cops killing Native men and getting away with it, Groulx laid it all out."
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Review (Priscila Uppal, RCI Biblio-File, 1/11/2012). Priscila Uppal discusses A Difficult Beauty on Radio Canada International's Biblio-File.
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Review (The Midwest Book Review). "The truth is often all too brutal to be embraced. ‘A Difficult Beauty’ … presents poetry that is honest about the charm and beauty of life as well as the failure and loss.”
Articles
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Poets in Profile: David Groulx (Ashliegh Gehl, Open Book: Ontario, 24/02/2012).
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Related reading: a roundup of First Nations and Métis titles (Prairie Books Now, 01/04/2012).
“This collection tells the stories of urban realities and reservation memories, of radioactive mining towns and traditional ceremonies, in images and rhythms that are sometimes harsh and sometimes gentle, but always evocative.”
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