“Book Descriptions: Deportment is a selection of poems--surreal, cerebral, and defiant--by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women's rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes some of Burdick's most iconic poems as well as previously unpublished material and rare work from the beginning of her careers in 1990s Toronto. Burdick's later poetry, more expansive in form and subject matter, addresses motherhood, the rural landscape, and sex and desire in middle age. Deportment makes the case for Alice Burdick as one of Canada's best poets, alongside figures such as Lisa Robertson, Karen Solie, and Sina Queyras.” DRIVE
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