She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry

She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry

Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received almost universal acclaim. And nowhere because, for all their hints of hard living and their undercurrent of despair, her poems divulge little of the author herself. But time happens to the best of us. Her first book, Short Haul Engine, was publishe…