Book description
In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of
coursecatalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel,
nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks.
There is music, tooa whorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a
favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered
flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages through
Matisse, is reenacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction.
Barbara Folkart has lived in Germany, France, England, and Italy,
worked at the Harvard and Paris Observatories, and received a Ph. D.
in medieval French literature. Her poetry has appeared in numerous
literary journals, including Arc, The Antigonish Review,
Descant, The Malahat Review, Event, and
Thumbscrew. Currently she lives in Canada's capital where she
teaches translation studies at the University of Ottawa.
