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PublisherDC Books
ISBN-100919688179
ISBN-139780919688179
eBay Product ID (ePID)2477533
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Book TitleTwo Eyes Are You Sleeping
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCanadian, General
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenrePoetry
AuthorHeather O'neill
Book SeriesNew Writers Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight3.6 Oz
Item Length5 in
Item Width8 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"...witty, penetrating, imaginative, visual, and emotional." -- Canadian Literature, Autumn 2000 "...[Not] just poems.... three-penny opera, early-morning police statement and the slurring song of vagabonds like magpies on methadone." -- Matrix, Spring 1999 "...Harsh familiarity and inventive language...creates a sense of urgency....[A] poetic exploration of poverty and single motherhood." -- Montreal Review of Books, Summer 1999
Number of Volumes1 vol.
SynopsisThis is the first full-length collection of poems by Heather ONeill, a writer and performer living in Montreal. two eyes are you sleeping is a linked collection of personal and political lyrics, written in a voice that reflects both the rootlessness and violence of the urban landscape and a metaphorical brilliance that transforms the ordinary into the visionary.These are poems of the street, poems of defenselessness, strength, perversity and generosity, poems of drug addicts, alcoholics, con-men and sexual adventurers, poems to shout out in the bathtub with the radio blaring out the song you loved when you were fourteen. Most of all they are about growing up human in the drab beauty of the city. Critical Comment...witty, penetrating, imaginative, visual, and emotional. Canadian Literature, Autumn 2000 ...YNot? just poems.... three-penny opera, early-morning police statement and the slurring song of vagabonds like magpies on methadone. Matrix, Spring 1999 ...Harsh familiarity and inventive language...creates a sense of urgency....YA? poetic exploration of poverty and single motherhood. Montreal Review of Books, Summer 1999, This is the first full-length collection of poems by Heather O'Neill, a writer and performer living in Montreal. two eyes are you sleeping is a linked collection of personal and political lyrics, written in a voice that reflects both the rootlessness and violence of the urban landscape and a metaphorical brilliance that transforms the ordinary into the visionary. These are poems of the street, poems of defenselessness, strength, perversity and generosity, poems of drug addicts, alcoholics, con-men and sexual adventurers, poems to shout out in the bathtub with the radio blaring out the song you loved when you were fourteen. Most of all they are about growing up human in the drab beauty of the city.
