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Lowballer





Price: $14.95

Page Count: 78

Publication Date: June 2013

ISBN: 978-1-927335-23-9

By morning you uncurl — lean in and pull back on a fulcrum of ego the way a steel-toed boot supports a shovel. When I emerge from behind our flap of vinyl, who comes out might be any collection of us here, hail, sunshine or rain. —Excerpt from “Day 6” In tree-planting lingo, a “lowballer” is the least respected person on any crew, one who plants slowly, earning little money. This narrative poem sequence contrasts lyric love and nature poems with found poems from advertising and planting logs. Spanning the period of one potent season, Goodliffe’s narrator tells a spellbinding story about disillusionment in the clear-cut.

Originally from Scarborough, Kim Goodliffe planted trees in the Lake-of-the-Woods region during a bear infestation. Her poetry, short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Canadian literary magazines and newspapers including Descant, Grain, sub-TERRAIN, Vancouver Review and the Vancouver Sun. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC.