Interrobang

By Mary Dalton

The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the questioning and the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton ' s compelling investigations of home and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection-- in extraordinary poems of aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites of community abandoned. The " flared mouth" of Dalton' s acclaimed musicality gives voice to lost souls and a lost sense of the earth. The collection' s unique mix of bleakness and beauty is also reflected in various riddle and riddle-like series with their ambiguity, open-endedness, playfulness, and unexpected linguistic shifts. Interrobang movingly fuses notions of exploration -- of glancing at things slant-- with an emotional range that feels new and visionary. This is a steely, brilliant book from a major Canadian poet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550656686
• ISBN13: 9781550656688
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 7.5"