A Demolition Symphony
By: Sonja Skarstedt.
Edition: First
Publisher: Empyreal Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Format: Paper
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: poetry
First sentence: Please go to this web site for a selection of Skarstedt's poetry (which includes pieces from A Demolition Symphony): http://www.skarwood.com/ZapSASpoems.htm
Description: Upheaval as catalyst. War. Inclinations of chaos. The tensions and inebriating passions of Montreal provide a fertile ecosphere. Satire, humour and word fugues evoked by the not-so-inevitable fallout of life on the brink of the twenty-first century. Dialogues. Whimsical auras and human portraits emanate from this era's version of the village square, the subterranean shopping mall. Music from an urban perspective.
Notes: "It is impossible to sit down with the book and not find yourself transfixed…I feel the city, not just Montreal, but any enthralling major city, where the present moment is an epiphany on its way to becoming a ruin.The best word to describe the effect of it would be ‘majestic,’an almost classical kind of passion and import."


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