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list price: $9.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Jan 2001
ISBN:9781895636284
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
'Full Magpie Dodge' is about the shiny brightness of modern urban life, its pressures and joys. More-or-less artful dodgers populate its pages, along with office workers, crows, exhausted junkies and jubilant lovers. Intertwined with all their lives is the unforgotten rural past and the still turbulent North: in short, it's a book that takes Canadian life as it is: startlingly robust, enduring, and sometimes beautiful.
"There's no messing around with Lyle Neff. He's straight forward, down-to-earth and uncomplicated in a very complicated way that makes sense." - The Loop
"There's enough humour, self-loathing, and joie de vivre here to satisfy Bukowski's fans, but Neff's the far better craftsman. If you thrill to what words can do when stacked right, drop 14 bucks on 'Full Magpie Dodge'. Five books down the road, this kid'll be big-league. Get in on the ground floor and grin." - Fast Forward Weekly
Contributor Notes
Lyle Neff's work has appeared in 'subTerrain', 'Geist', 'Prism International', 'Adbusters Quarterly', 'Canadian Dimension' and 'Seventh Wave'. His first collection of poetry, 'Ivanhoe Station' (Anvil Press), was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Also published by Anvil Press are 'Full Magpie Dodge' and 'Bizarre Winery Tragedy'. Neff lives and works in Vancouver.
