Deportment: The Poetry of Alice Burdick

By Alice Burdick

• contains previously unpublished poems as well as some only available from micro press publications
• Alice Burdick is a Canadian poet who shares more in common with postmodern American poets such as Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer, Barbara Guest, and Lorine Niedecker
• author owns a bookstore (LEXICON Books) in Lunenberg, NS. She has longstanding ties to Toronto and Vancouver as well.
• poems address women’s rights, the dangers of dogma, destruction of the environment, class conflict, alien or paranormal visions

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Release date: Nov 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781771123822

Alice Burdick

Alice Burdick is the author of four poetry collections, including Book of Short Sentences (2016). Her work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines and was shortlisted for the Lemonhound Poetry Prize in 2014. She is the co-owner of Lexicon Books in Lunenburg and lives in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.