 [ Large Image ] | Handfuls of Bone Monica Kidd 2012 / Poetry / $19.95 9781554471140 / Trade paper / 80 pp Monica Kidd’s Handfuls of Bone takes the reader to the end of the road and back, to outports both literal and figurative, to consider how it is that things somehow hold together. The poems, primarily short, narrative in form and lyric in spirit, are driven by distilled observation and concern themselves with the elemental. These truths find their expression in images of fish drying on Newfoundland clotheslines, of the velvety breath of a newborn baby, of a family’s grief following a sudden death, of Amelia Earhart’s ambition and apprehension, and of motherhood through thick and thin. In confronting uncomfortable moments of loss, want, illness, uncertainty and conflict, Kidd holds a level gaze, avoiding sentimentality and nostalgia. Kidd’s is a poetic which embodies the twin skills of her physician’s training—cool-headed and unblinking observation-based diagnosis combined with compassion, empathy and humanity. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Chance Encounters with Wild Animals Monica Kidd 2019 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN 9781554471973 / Trade paper / 96 pp |  | The Year of Our Beautiful Exile Monica Kidd 2015 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471430 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | Actualities Monica Kidd 2007 / Poetry / $16.95 CAN 9781554470419 / Trade paper / 64 pp |
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