In Reveries of a Solitary Biker
(Talonbooks $16.95), Catriona Strang’s poetry ponders the difficulties of living an anti-capitalist life; the invisibility of much of women’s labour; and the complexities of sustainability as she cycles around Vancouver. These poems reference and pay homage to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s unfinished 1776 manuscript of obsession, Reveries of the Solitary Walker. With cycling, Strang finds it particularly conducive to slow, non-deliberate thinking. She lives in Vancouver and has publicly performed parts of Reveries of a Solitary Biker with clarinetist François Houle.
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