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Crying Dress: Poems
Crying Dress: Poems
Crying Dress: Poems
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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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Release dateApr 2, 2024
ISBN9781487012595
Crying Dress: Poems
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Cassidy McFadzean

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.

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    Crying Dress - Cassidy McFadzean

    Crying Dress, Poems, by Cassidy McFadzean. The cover features a sketched illustration of a figure composed of different shapes on textured a beige background. The torso of the figure is a green sphere, the toe is a black point, the right arm a brown bat, the left arm a bell, and the face a combination of a white triangle and red half-circle. The figure has small lips as if it is wearing simple lipstick.

    crying

    dress


    Cassidy McFadzean

    Logo: House of Anansi Press

    Copyright © 2024 Cassidy McFadzean


    Published in Canada in 2024 and the

    USA

    in 2024 by House of Anansi Press Inc.

    houseofanansi.com


    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.


    House of Anansi Press is a Global Certified Accessible™ (

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    by Benetech) publisher.

    The ebook version of this book meets stringent accessibility standards and is available to readers with print disabilities.


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    Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

    Title: Crying dress : poems / Cassidy McFadzean.

    Names: McFadzean, Cassidy, author.

    Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230505597 | Canadiana (ebook) 20230505600 |

    ISBN 9781487012588 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487012595 (EPUB)

    Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

    Classification: LCC PS8625.F35 C79 2024 | DDC C811/.6—dc23


    Cover design: Greg Tabor

    Cover image: Costume design for the Triadic Ballet, 1919.

    Found in the Collection of Bauhaus-Museum Weimar.

    Book design and typesetting: Lucia Kim

    Ebook design: Nicole Lambe


    House of Anansi Press is grateful for the privilege to work on and create from the Traditional Territory of many Nations, including the Anishinabeg, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee, as well as the Treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit.


    Logos: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Canadian Government

    We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts,

    the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada.

    for Kourosh

    winter

    CHAMBER MUSIC

    Ringing in the year with brutalism and velour

    Accidental accentual outfits

    Show me a building with no facing

    The sparrow begging for crumbs

    rests inside the hollow of your chest

    What does it mean to be vulnerable?

    I don’t disguise my raw materials

    Sadness is present   Desire is present

    Oversharing our worst selves

    A ringing in the ears

    I could live pressed against your body

    like a bird or polished stone

    Brutal in the same basic ways

    GO SIT IN THE WHITE HOT

    Before bed, I count teeth slipping out,

    calculate bodies in the high-rise above

    As a child, who comforted you

    when you stirred from sleep?

    Did you stand in the doorway,

    watching softly snoring faces,

    too terrified to step

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