Purchase Info
- Toronto’s Another Story Bookshop
- Toronto’s Glad Day Lit
- Cobourg’s Readers’ Nook
- Glasgow’s Category Is Books
- Edinburgh’s Lighthouse Bookshop
- Order directly from San:
paypal.me/SanAlland
Canada = $14.95 ($10 + $4.95 postage)
UK = £6.90 (£5 + £1.90 postage)
Europe = £10.35 (£5 + £5.35 postage)
Worldwide = £12.35 (£5 + £7.35 postage)
Highlights
- San’s first full-length poetry collection; 104 pages
- published by McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2004
Description
“Proof of a Tongue eloquently establishes a new poetic voice worthy of serious attention. Sandra Alland writes with dry wit and mature assurance, grounding a sophisticated metaphysical vocabulary in the colloquial. Language is a perfect tool in her hands. Proof of a Tongue describes Scarborough as a ‘town of serial killers and suicide vistas’ and asserts that inflection can soothe with ‘miraculous breath.’ From ‘the sadness teenage girls have difficulty naming’ to boys who draw ‘VanGogh/Kahlo sandwiches’ Sandra Alland gazes slyly at life, smoothly piercing the surfaces of meaning. Alland exerts a deft control of subject and language.”
Reviews:
Shameless Magazine, Damian Rogers, Toronto
“…a warm and immediate body of poetry that shines.”
word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar
“…a striking first collection of poetry, displaying immense talent and skill.”
Curve Magazine, San Francisco
“…sparse and seductive.”