The Luskville Reductions

By Monty Reid

Shortlisted 2009 Lampman-Scott Award

The Luskville Reductions records a year in the life of a small Quebec town and the marriage that disintegrates there. While a book about loss, it is also a book about the state of becoming that coexists with change, the imbalance that for a time makes everything lucid, all the details adding up to much more than only an "us." The visible goes beyond mere facts in these poems, transformed into the deeply seen -- and therefore sacred.

The problem with daylilies
is the usual contemporary twaddle: how is it
we know anything
now that you're gone.

What do you mean
now that you're gone?
What do you mean
daylilies?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894078659
• ISBN13: 9781894078658
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.7"