Blue Feast

Fall 2005

Paperback 128 pages

Poetry

Blue Feast, a beautiful collection of poems from eloquent Canadian wordsmith Shawna Lemay, examines motherhood, marriage, and the prosaic nature of everyday life. In these original, engrossing poems Lemay delves into universal feelings of isolation and the painfulness of writing. Her poetry strains between light and dark, exultation and sorrow. Lemay writes candidly about profoundly personal experiences—a refreshing sound to all poetry lovers’ ears.

This captivating new collection by award-winning poet Shawna Lemay vividly evokes the minute and intricate details of the everyday.

“Shawna Lemay’s poems enact a tumultuous emotional high wire act across a landscape of daily bewilderment and dread, punctuated by bursts of bliss and ‘idiotic joy.’ . . . Fasten your seatbelts, it’s a wild ride. It’s a ‘blue feast’ in the turbulent tradition of Elizabeth Smart and Clarice Lispector. It’s travelling with ‘lions,’ it’s a night trip through ‘catacombs,’ it’s a voracious embrace under a thinning, ‘kind gentle cruel insane’ sky.”