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    Buoyancy Control
    Buoyancy Control
    Buoyancy Control
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    Buoyancy Control

    By Adrienne Gruber

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    Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, presents a fascinating culmination of land and sea, mind and body, in linguistic form. Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water (as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces), swim and swirl their way through Gruber’s languid poems, which are divided into two evocative sections that explore themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.

    Buoyancy Control is an honest, at times humorous, and revealing look inside the mind and body of a woman manoeuvring through experiences of longing, loss, and the fluidity of sexual identity, presented in a powerfully feminist and unapologetic poetic voice, from one of Canada’s most promising young writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9781771662239
    Buoyancy Control
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    Adrienne Gruber

    Adrienne Gruber is the author of three books of poetry, Q & A (Book*hug), Buoyancy Control (BookThug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press), and five chapbooks. She won The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron poetry contest in 2015, SubTerrain's Lush Triumphant poetry contest in 2017 and has been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards, ARC?s Poem of the Year contest, Descant's Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem contest and Matrix Magazine's Lit POP poetry contest. In 2012, her chapbook, Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Originally from Saskatoon, Adrienne lives in Vancouver with her partner and two daughters.

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