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    The Luskville Reductions
    The Luskville Reductions
    The Luskville Reductions
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    The Luskville Reductions

    By Monty Reid

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    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. - See more at: http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=169#sthash.g93wMAG1.dpuf
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
    ISBN9781926829036
    The Luskville Reductions
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    Monty Reid

    Monty Reid was born in Saskatchewan, worked for many years in Alberta, and now lives in Ottawa. His books include Garden (Chaudiere), The Luskville Reductions (Brick), and CrawlSpace (Anansi). Recent chapbooks include Kissing Bug (Phafours), Moan Coach (above/ground) and Site Conditions (Apt. 9). He has won Alberta's Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry on three occasions, the Lampman Award, National Magazine Awards, and is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award. He is currently the Managing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and Festival Director at VerseFest, Ottawa’s international poetry festival.

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      The Luskville Reductions - Monty Reid

      The Luskville Reduction

      The Luskville Reduction

      Monty Reid

      Brick Book

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Reid, Monty, 1952-

           The Luskville reductions / Monty Reid.

      Poems.

      ISBN 978-1-894078-65-8

           1. Luskville (Pontiac, Québec)—Poetry. I. Title.

      PS8585.E603L88 2008      C811’.54      C2008-900475-2

      Copyright © Monty Reid, 2008

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.

      The photograph on the cover is Erosions in Granite by

      Adrian R. Searle, October 2004.

      The author’s photograph is by John MacDonald.

      The book is set in Minion Pro and Rotis Sans.

      Design and layout by Alan Siu.

      Printed and bound by Sunville Printco Inc.

      Brick Books

      431 Boler Road, Box 20081

      London, Ontario N6K 4G6

      www.brickbooks.ca

      For Sarah Hill

      Nothing can be reduced to anything else.

      – Bruno Latour

      My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

      – Psalm 139: 15, 16

      Luskville is a phantom settlement on the Ottawa River in western Quebec. I lived there for five years, until my partner, nursing a suite of dissatisfactions, returned to Alberta in 1994. Before she left, she planted a dozen varieties

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