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Masque

The Mercury Press

2004

A polyphonic assemblage of fragments, Masque engages media constructs and the flesh in methodically built layers painstakingly stripped away. A cast of characters interrogates Author, Performer and Audience—public and private personae revealing traces of veiled knowledge. The narrative lines coil inward: tautening. Just when it seems too much, the traces perform a type of reparation: held cumulatively, then released, again and again.

Finalist, Trillium Book Award for Poetry