The Soft Signature

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Multiple meanings are generated and evoked through the disruption of a simple linear narrative and lyric sensibility, in this collection of poems where language is not simply "a means to an end.' Instead, its instability and unpredictability are encouraged and given a free hand: the effect is the creation of an alternate reality that is as Canadian as Canada itself. In breathtaking poems like "Arranged Tributaries, ' Downe proves herself the consummate literary scientist: the imagination's cartographer, geologist, meteorologist, and historian. Ultimately, the poems" "document a natural history of culture and communication, momentarily stabilizing the perpetually shifting sands upon which all such institutions are built.