Pink purse girl

By: Susan Helwig

October 2006
88 pages | ISBN 1-894987-14-4
$17.00

With bright, bold images Susan L. Helwig's Pink purse girl dances off the page. With "eyes honed in a blizzard" she writes of love, lust and life, moving with ease from a lover's sheets, warm from the dryer, to the contents of a third poetry winner's perfect pink purse. Along the way she visits the prairies of her past, travels to Paris, falls in and out of love, and hears the music of the sixties. This is a vibrant, warm and wry collection, a remarkable book.

From my corner

they are looking at seeds
they are making plans
they lean together over the table
their eggs are golden
they are plotting a garden
their story is round and big
they will have children
they have lots of time
he writes perfect novels
she knits cozy cardigans
they sing modern harmonies
they will travel to France
they read the New York Times
they read Ondaatje
they are in love.

Reviews

• Prairie Fire Review of Books (Kath MacLean, Prairie Fire, 7/2/2008). “Helwig isn't afraid to take on the world, to shake up conventions of polite society and find eroticism where one least expects it.”