{"product_id":"tinderbox-9780985557799","title":"Tinderbox","description":"\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDale Winslow\u003c\/b\u003e earned her B.Sc. in Wildlife Management from the University of Guelph and her B.Ed. from the University of Victoria. Dale has enjoyed life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, photographer, painter, editor and writer. She was co-editor of the\u003ci\u003e Poetry Ring \u003c\/i\u003efeature for\u003ci\u003e ETC: A Review of General Semantics \u003c\/i\u003efrom 2008-2011. Her poetry has been published in \u003ci\u003eOther Voices, ETC, General Semantics Bulletin, \u003c\/i\u003e several anthologies, various e-zines, and she was co-editor and contributor to the poetry anthology\u003ci\u003e Candy\u003c\/i\u003e. Dale resides in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dale Winslow's \u003ci\u003eTinderbox \u003c\/i\u003eshows a sure, mature touch with words, and styles. Many of the poems herein blend symbolist style with contemporary rap: a rap without the theatrical ranting and bling. And from time to time one can hear or glimpse in the background an e e cummings, a John Skelton. Entertaining and thought-provoking.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric McLuhan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eElectric Language, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author with Marshall McLuhan of \u003ci\u003eLaws of Media, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMedia and Formal Cause\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dale Winslow's \u003ci\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/i\u003e will ignite\u003ci\u003e you\u003c\/i\u003e. Her sensuous poems explode in an orgiastic word feast which communicates a waking dream convergence between women, nature, and truth. Winslow's words hook you; you \"reel them in real in them until you say \u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e.\" She conjures many varieties of \"\u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e\" and \"Oh\" which encircle you within poetic sheer delight. Really \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Marleen S. Barr\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGenre Fission, Lost in Space, Feminist Fabulation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel, \u003ci\u003eOy Pioneer  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These poems track truth as though it were some constantly morphing mythical creature leaping from one disguise to another until it is caught and stilled in its final form-wisdom. They are euphonious, sensual, full of surprises and highly engaging. They present the reader with ample opportunities to \"commit pleasure crimes against the dying world.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Robert Priest\u003c\/b\u003e, poet, novelist, playwright, songwriter, performer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A late evening's snifter of words - surprisingly ancient and very modern at the same time, personal and cosmic, even the typography dances - that gets to the deepest centers of your brain. Winslow is a welcome, major talent.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Paul Levinson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Plot to Save Socrates\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnburning Alexandria\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No container of flammable miniatures but rather a smoldering verbal inferno, blazing with the heat \u0026amp; light of Dale Winslow's unflinching yet passionate gaze on all things great and small, \u003ci\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the most profound preoccupations of consciousness: love \u0026amp; loss, the natural \u0026amp; unnatural worlds (\"broken temples of man\"), \u0026amp;, most exquisitely perhaps, death (\"the endangered void\"). It should be no surprise, then, that to enter the world of \u003ci\u003eTinderbox\u003c\/i\u003e is to enter the world itself in all of its felt drama -- illuminated, lamented, \u0026amp; celebrated by the voice of this \"white noise Orpheus,\" a voice both incendiary \u0026amp; generative, \"curling\/coiling\/as a snake\/on fire.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e, poet and editor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dale Winslow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Neopoiesis Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780985557799\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neopoiesis Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40495522611315,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7ef10483-9b1e-4d3c-bf26-593aa3c62c4c.jpg?v=1665062840","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/tinderbox-9780985557799","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}