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.
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
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Cassidy McFadzean
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Title: Crying dress : poems / Cassidy McFadzean.
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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