holding ground
Author:
Tanis MacDonald
"Tanis MacDonald, in holding
ground, manages to balance precision, clarity and narrative drive with
a startling and apt sense of imagery. The end result is a rich and engrossing
debut-well worth the wait."
~ Robert Priest
"holding
ground is a book of jaunty wit and playful reworkings of history's lost
women, expertly realized in a myriad of poetic voices and forms. But when her
poetic ground is grief and loss, Tanis MacDonald's craft soars-and takes us earthward
again, to re-learn the lessons of love in a life that is "engraved with dying,"
to re-learn that our closest connections can both wound and heal us."
~
Maureen Hynes
"In holding
ground, Tanis MacDonald explores the imaginative depths of contemporary
womanhood. Sharply witty, yet abidingly tender, these poems speak eloquently of
love and mourning, laundry and gardening, and the hundred other difficult lessons
of being human."
~ Catherine Hunter
