 [ Large Image ] | Penelope Sue Goyette 2017 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 9781554471744 / Trade paper / 96 pp Penelope waits for Odysseus’s return, so the story goes, but literary tradition tells us little about this act of waiting, an act every bit as epic as her husband’s exploits. In this suite of poems, Sue Goyette steps into the disorienting world of Penelope’s domestic upheaval, a world populated by a swarm of opportunistic suitors, a tempestuous teenage son, a goddess and sundry sentient objects and talking creatures. Written with a wit and a penchant for magic realism reminiscent of both Ocean and The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, Goyette’s Penelope chronicles the human qualities of waiting—grief, doubt, depression and anger, but also determination, strength and grace—as Penelope breaks her long silence and exclaims her own story. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart Review: “A melodic, meditative, clever collection of poems.” —Jonathan Ball, The Winnipeg Free Press “This is a tightly circumscribed collection of poems whose range of experience is, perforce, the insides of one, single and singular woman.... it would appear that the very same muse rousing Homer, seems likewise to have visited this remarkable poet.”—David B. Hickey, The Antigonish Review | Other Books by this Author |  | Monoculture Sue Goyette 2022 / Canadian Poetry / $24.95 CAN 9781554472376 / Trade paper / 176 pp |  | Solstice 2020: An Archive Sue Goyette 2021 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554472246 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Anthesis: A Memoir Sue Goyette 2020 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554472109 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl Sue Goyette 2015 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471461 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Ocean Sue Goyette 2013 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471225 / Trade paper / 80 pp |
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