{"product_id":"for-your-safety-please-hold-kayla-czaga-9780889713031","title":"For Your Safety Please Hold on","description":"\u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves--several from this collection have received award attention, including: \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e's 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2012 Far Horizon's Award for Poetry and an Editor's Choice Award in \u003ci\u003eARC Poetry Magazine'\u003c\/i\u003es 2012 Poem of the Year Contest. They have also been shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe New Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e's 2013 Occasional Verse Contest, longlisted for CBC's 2013 Canada Writes Poetry Contest and have appeared in literary publications across North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering expectations--\"She sits. She sips her bright pink fingers. \/ She slips into smart short haircuts, yes, \/ she does so, and does herself up just so.\" While her pin prick meditations on contemporary adulthood suggest a yearning for personal meaning and purpose on a larger scale--\"I still wander, sometimes, \/ my coat closing the world out of my body, with pockets \/ full of garbage, with my slender steady want. I still \/ make the bed and at bedtime unmake it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe irrepressible energy of the poems in \u003ci\u003eFor Your Safety Please Hold On\u003c\/i\u003e, paired with their complex balancing act between light and dark, humour and melancholy, innocence and danger, make this collection an extraordinary first offering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kayla Czaga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889713030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889713031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist","brand":"Kayla Czaga","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148198060287,"sku":"9780889713031","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-your-safety-please-hold-kayla-czaga-9780889713031","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}