Baddie One Shoe
This is a highly original concept poetry book divided into baddies the author knows and baddies she knows of. She writes in layers and her word use colors images into some interesting verses.
Amazon USABaddie One Shoe Paperback – September 17, 2019 by Natalie Meisner (Author)
- Publisher : Frontenac House Ltd. (September 17, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 100 pages
- ISBN-10 : 192782396X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1927823965
This is a highly original concept poetry book divided into baddies the author knows and baddies she knows of. She writes in layers and her word use colors images into some interesting verses. From the poem “Your Best Guess”: “Where did it go? / Take your best guess. / I dropped it in the sink / I lost it in the fire It was eaten by locusts / My fictional dog marginally devoured it / It fell down an orphaned gas well then ignited / It was occupied then destroyed by vandals.” She grips the reader surprisingly from all sides.
About the Author
Natalie Meisner is a widely produced author of stage plays and an award-winning multi-genre author. Her play Boom Baby (about the lives of workers in the oil patch) won both the Canadian National Playwriting Award and the Alberta Playwriting Award and will debut at Eastern Front Theatre in 2020. Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family topped nonfiction lists and was a finalist in the Atlantic Book Awards. Speed Dating for Sperm Donors (Playwrights Canada Press, forthcoming) was a hit at Lunchbox and Neptune Theatres. Her first children's book My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother & Me is available from Nimbus Publishing. Baddie One Shoe is her first book of poems and her ode to the renegades of the past and present who fight the powers that be with laughter. Meisner is a wife and mom to two great boys and a Professor in the Department of English at Mount Royal University where she works in the areas of creative writing, drama and gender/ sexuality studies.