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Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, presents a fascinating culmination of land and sea, mind and body, in linguistic form. Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water (as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces), swim and swirl their way through Gruber's languid poems, which are divided into two evocative sections that explore themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.
Buoyancy Control is an honest, at times humorous, and revealing look inside the mind and body of a woman manoeuvring through experiences of longing, loss, and the fluidity of sexual identity, presented in a powerfully feminist and unapologetic poetic voice, from one of Canada's most promising young writers.
About the author
ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including
Q & A,
Buoyancy Control, and
This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection,
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionnettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the
Antigonish Review's 2015 Great Blue Heron poetry contest and
SubTerrain's 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in
Event's 2020 creative nonfiction contest, and was the runner up in
SubTerrain's 2023 creative nonfiction contest. Both her poetry and nonfiction have been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012,
Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.
