{"product_id":"meeting-the-tormentors-in-safeway-alexandra-oliver-9781927428436","title":"Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway","description":"\u003cb\u003eA CANADIAN POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR, \u003ci\u003eTHE NATIONAL POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alexandra Oliver has many arrows in her quiver--all of them sharpened to a fine point. This is an excellent and entertaining collection.\"--TIMOTHY STEELE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway\u003c\/i\u003e, Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey all had names like Jennifer or Lynne\u003cbr\u003eor Katherine; they all had bone-blonde hair, \u003cbr\u003ethat wet, flat cut with bangs. They pulled your chair\u003cbr\u003efrom underneath you, shoved their small fists in\u003cbr\u003eyour face. Too soon, you knew it would begin, \u003cbr\u003ethose minkish teeth like shrapnel in the air, \u003cbr\u003ethe Bacchic taunts, the Herculean dare, \u003cbr\u003etheir soccer cleats against your porcine shin, \u003cbr\u003ethat laugh, which sounded like a hundred birds\u003cbr\u003eescaping from a gunshot through the reeds--\u003cbr\u003eand now you have to face it all again: \u003cbr\u003ethe joyful freckled faces lost for words\u003cbr\u003ein supermarkets, as those red hands squeeze\u003cbr\u003eyour own. \u003ci\u003eIt's been so long \u003c\/i\u003e They say. Amen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOliver's poems, which she describes as \"text-based home movies,\" unveil a cinematic vision of suburbia at once comical and poignant: framed to renew our curiosity in the mundane and pressing rhyme and metre to their utmost, \u003ci\u003eMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway\u003c\/i\u003e is a five-star performance from Canada's new formalist sensation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alexandra Oliver is in full command of a saber wit and impeccable ear. Lucky the reader along for the ride.\"--JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice.\"--CHARLES MARTIN \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Vancouver, Canada and divides her time between Toronto and Glasgow, Scotland. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway\u003c\/i\u003e (Biblioasis). She currently teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1927428432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781927428436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.20d","brand":"Alexandra Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372460626175,"sku":"9781927428436","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13644cda-e467-4ccd-9e04-197e6b5509c0.jpg?v=1732726010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/meeting-the-tormentors-in-safeway-alexandra-oliver-9781927428436","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}