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Karen Solie

Franklin Hicks

  • 1 Migration | Translations: defrcs
  • 2 Untitled [You’re still young...] | Translations: fr
  • 3 Determinism | Translations: de
  • 4 Meeting Walter Benjamin
  • 5 Early in Winter | Translations: defr
  • 6 Pathology of the Senses | Translations: cs
  • 7 Franklin Hicks
  • 8 The Vandal Confesses | Translations: cs
  • 9 Thrasher
  • 10 Sturgeon
Language: english
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Franklin Hicks

The half-ton choked halfway up the boundary road and would not
turn over. He lifted the hood to shorted wire and the night adjacent.
To the south, the town on the old rail spur, a mile closer as the crow flies
than the number two highway, a slog through crown lands of chattering birch
and firs frozen as the wind had cocked them. There were streetlights,
porchlights, visible. He set forth over the crackling verge, the low wind
viperish, hissing through last year’s foxtails and brome and flicking
little tongues of grainy snow up from the crust. Hauling the scars
of 60-odd years, he felt the breach of a subtle limit. The verge of dark
was blue and short and he broached the grazing lands in the moon’s
owly light, the very air in a glittering twist as the risen wind pulled
over him its blanket of stings. No discernible rabbit or fox. He followed
fencewire and phone line to their brittle limits, cocked an eye right-angled
to the boundary road and knew he had lost the truck. That this
was his life now, feet numb in the beds of their good boots. He was
a younger man in his mind. When the branch snapped from the clattering birch
and clipped him at the neck, it lit up his nerves like a bone spur, viperish.
Still, as the crow flies, were the town lights visible. He hove up
under a fir and stuck, eyes squint and his scant fur froze, as the wind
pulled up over him his blanket of snow. He met the country
on the terms of its bitter limits. Sheltered in the underbranches until
he disappeared. As the rabbit enters the owl’s night eye, and disappears.

© Karen Solie
From: unpublished
Audio production: 2007, Literaturwekstatt Berlin

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Karen Solie

photo © gezett.de
* 06.07.1966, Moose Jaw, Canada
lives in: Toronto, Canada

Karen Solie was born in 1966 in Moose Jaw, Canada.

She pursued many different activities before she turned to poetry as her main occupation, including newspaper reporting, musician, barkeeper and research assistant in the academic world.

With clear linguistic expression, she sets out to cultivate a dark appreciation of humour, at the same time allowing a lasting sense of vulnerability to shine forth.

Her published works include Short Haul Engine (2001) and Modern and Normal (2005).

 photo © gezett.de
Publications
  • Short Haul Engine

    London and Ontario: Brick Books, 2001

  • The Shooter's Bible

    Junction Books, 2004

  • Modern and Normal

    London and Ontario: Brick Books, 2005

  • Pigeon

    Poetry

    2009

  • The Living Option

    2013

  • The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

    2015

  • The Caiplie Caves

    Poetry

    2019

Awards
  • 2002 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

  • 2009 Trillium Book Award

  • 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize

  • 2010 Pat Lowther Award

  • 2015 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize

Links
  • Karen Solie @ Wikipedia

    Website

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