Desire Path - Paperback

by Taryn Hubbard (Author)

A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb - in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space; urban renewal is foreshadowed all over contemporary suburbs, where vacant single-family lots herald anticipation of redevelopment into something more, something better, something healthier. But before that happens, what do we make of the space as it sits, just as it is? What monuments anchor the suburb now? These poems call on superblocks, gas stations, fast food joints, flickering flat screen TVs, six-lane highways, and wildfire smoke to guide the experience of moving through the complicated markers from childhood to motherhood.

Author Biography

Taryn Hubbard's poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been included in journals such as Canadian Literature, Room, The Capilano Review, Canadian Woman Studies, CV2, filling Station, and others. She holds a BA in English and Communications from Simon Fraser University, and a certificate in journalism from Langara College. She lives in B.C.'s Fraser Valley with her husband, Aaron, and daughter, Esther. Desire Path is her first book.