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category: Poetry
published: Sep 2012
ISBN:9780889825888
publisher: Oolichan Books

Rainbow Stage-Manchuria

by Steve Noyes

tagged: canadian, places
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Rainbow Stage-Manchuria, Steve Noyes’s fifth collection, sees him return to the long poem twice over, displaying his range and inventiveness. “Rainbow Stage” presents a 1973 rock concert in real time by the psychedelic Winnipeg band The Next. This sly mélange of panoramic action, wicked lyrics and deft character sketches is a broad wink at the conventions of rock and the silly cosmologies of the seventies. Daydream and raise your Bic lighters along with The Next as they ask, Where does childhood end? “Manchuria” is a long, sarcastic lament by an exiled woman in Northern China who explores the possibilities of alternative histories. “Manchuria” is sweet and sad, a testimony for our age on the scarring of a voice by time. And a third section, “The Marais,” brings together Noyes’s shorter riffs on dystopias, medical policy, raptors, and the dramas of human and family frailty. Rainbow Stage-Manchuria, with its layers of play, is nothing short of a world.

About the Author
Steve Noyes taught English at Qing Hua University in Beijing and in Dong Yan Jiao, a small town outside Beijing, in 1997-1998. He grew up in Winnipeg and lives in Victoria, BC.

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