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Crying Dress: Poems

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

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Crying Dress: Poems

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

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Crying Dress: Poems

Crying Dress: Poems

by Cassidy McFadzean
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Crying Dress: Poems

Crying Dress: Poems

by Cassidy McFadzean

Overview

The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487012595
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Publication date: 04/02/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi 2024). Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Walrus, and Hazlitt, and in Dead Writers, a collaborative anthology out this fall with Invisible Publishing. Cassidy was born in Regina and currently lives in Toronto, where she is the 2024-2025 Writer in Residence at Sheridan College.

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Poppick

Seasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’

Michael Prior

‘There was a time we could have gone back but that time has passed,’ writes Cassidy McFadzean in Crying Dress, where poems of grief and intimacy memorably explore modernity’s juxtapositions of the beautiful, the bizarre, and the brutal. Here ‘the bud of a tadpole in cupped palms,’ a Frida Kahlo pillow, and the last text message from a loved one become unexpected keystones in the architecture of the speaker’s experience. These surprising, moving poems relate newfound sobriety, nascent love, and irrevocable loss, while capturing the flickering quality of contemporary attention. McFadzean confronts the immense entropy of our moment and uncovers, within it, within us, tenderness.

From the Publisher

"Seasonal affect falls into beautifully monstrous order in Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress, a collection tracking a year’s circuitous passage in New York, Toronto, and abroad. Writing from the disorienting clarity of grief and new love, McFadzean sutures these states into blunt longing—to savour every warp of the world and to hover outside its adjunct horrors, a lyric zone in which the poet can ‘sing like an animal clawing inside.’"— Daniel Poppick, author of Fear of Description

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