Shelley a leedahl biography of albert

Shelley A. Leedahl  has written thirteen books, the most recent of which is the poetry collection, Go(Radiant Press, )which caught my attention with its lively down-to-earth and grounded yet lifting past mundane poems.

(See the Go book launch.) 

Mine is a very marked up copy of ooh, like that. Such as &#;What I Left in that City&#; which starts as a list poem but whomp,

&#;Stained-glass wine goblets.

Favourites/ gifted from my daughter’s old boyfriend./ Sacrificed because the man I was escaping—//who insisted I not raise my eyebrows/ as the effort left lines in my forehead—//asked for the glasses to remember me by.&#;

The poems don&#;t tend to float oceanic but touch the far shore and touch the shallow end of the pool to gratifying results.

Later in &#;Smuggler&#;s Cove Provincial Park&#; she shows her humour &#;I can’t read the minute directions on the $50 can of bear spray [&#;] wouldn’t it be just our luck to be doomed in the wilds by nearsightedness.&#;

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