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    fur(l) parachute
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    fur(l) parachute

    By Shannon Maguire

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    fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman’s lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of fur(l) parachute is further disrupted by such texts as instructions on how to make a parachute lure for fly fishing or the misreading of mathematical knot diagrams. Wryly troubling origins, this poem multiplies its outlawed longing for all that cannot cross.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateMay 20, 2013
    ISBN9781927040720
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    Shannon Maguire

    Shannon Maguire is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. The author of two collections of poetry fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina she has been a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

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