About the Author\
Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Her collections include Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, and The Living Option. She has received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. The Living Option was named one of the best poetry books of 2013 by the National Post (Toronto) and The Independent (London). Solie lives in Toronto, Canada.\
The award-winning poet Karen Solieâs striking fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seventh-century monk with contemporary themes of economic class, environmentalism, and solitude in an ever-connected world\
if one asks for a sign
must one accept whatâs given?\
Ethernan, an Irish missionary in the seventh century, retreated to the Caiplie Caves on the eastern coast of Scotland to consider life as a hermit. In The Caiplie Caves, Karen Solieâs fifth collection of poems, short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Solie inhabits a figure inspired by Ethernan, a man torn between the communal and the contemplative. His story is remarkable for the mysticism embedded in the ordinary; as Solie writes in her preface, Ethernan is not known for supernatural feats, but âis said to have survived for a very long time on bread and water.â\
Interwoven with the voice of this figure are poems whose subjects orbit the physical location of the caves and join the sharply contemporary to the mythic past: the fall of a coal-fired power station; a âdruid shouting astrologyâ outside a liquor store, putting âthe Ambien in ambienceâ; seabirds âfrontloaded with military techâ; the dichotomous nature of the stinging nettle.\
These are meditations on the crisis of time and change, on class, power, and belief. Above all, these are ambitious and exhilarating poems from one of todayâs most gifted poetic voices.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Poetry
- Women Authors
- Poetry
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Solie, Karen
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2021-07-13
Number Of Pages : 144
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0374602891
ISBN-13 : 9780374602895
Item weight : 0.41 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 5.76 in x 7.77 in
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