Earle Street

(Paperback, New edition)

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Earle Street is a lyrical poetry collection focussing on a specific street, Earle Street, and on a particular tree growing there. It takes the concept of street and urban living, the houses on the street, the neighbours, the boulevard trees and wildlife, and the street's history as a poetic focal point. The book is divided into four sections, each of which differently considers the poet's home street - as river, arboretum, window, and, finally, as a whole world.

Reviews

Par disrupts the fixity inherent in ideas of normativity by underscoring the very liminality that exists at the core of language.
Clayton Longstaff, the League of Canadian Poets

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Arleen has written poems about trees, rats, a grey squirrel, an orange cat, the people, the naming of the street, memories of her own ancestors, and of her own past. All of these aspects, including the various forms used, make it a rich and intimate exploration of place as well as with oneself.
maryannmoore.ca

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Read this book and prepare to see where you live anew.
The Maynard

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a cool and soothing collection
Times Colonist

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Par disrupts the fixity inherent in ideas of normativity by underscoring the very liminality that exists at the core of language
Clayton Longstaff, League of Canadian Poets

Author Bio

Arleen Pars first book, Paper Trail, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry and won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2008. Leaving Now, a mixed-genre novel released in 2012, was highlighted on All Lit Up. Lake of Two Mountains, her third book, won the 2014 Governor Generals Award for Poetry, was nominated for the Butler Book Prize, and won the CBC Bookie Award. Pars poetry collection, He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car, was a 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist. The Girls with Stone Faces, her fifth book, won the American Golden Crown Award for poetry in 2018. She lives in Victoria, BC with her partner.