'Cold Spring in Winter' caused quite a stir when it was published in 1999. Here was the shock of an authentically new voice in whose urgent, stammered cadences an adult, and the little girl she used to be, join together to compose a lament for her dead father, a scrap-metal dealer.
'Cold Spring in Winter' caused quite a stir when it was published in 1999. Here was the shock of an authentically new voice in whose urgent, stammered...
In her follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 'Cold Spring in Winter, ' Valerie Rouzeau presents a language that is a hybrid of liberty and constraint. There are omissions and contractions, colloquialisms and archaisms, alongside wordplay, child-speak, exploded cliche, and a hightened awareness of the poetic tradition."
In her follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 'Cold Spring in Winter, ' Valerie Rouzeau presents a language that is a hybrid of liberty and constraint....
