Sleeping in Tall Grass

"My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves"
—From "Salt"

A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within the body of the Canadian prairie itself—at once physical, historical, and metaphysical. These intensely personal poems reflect the complex relationships between sound and space, language and s...