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Poetry. FUR(L) PARACHUTE claims as its surrogate the Old English poem "Wulf and Eadwacer." Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman's lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of FUR(L) PARACHUTE is further disrupted by such texts as instructions on how to make a parachute lure for fly fishing or the misreading of mathematical knot diagrams. Wryly troubling origins, this poem multiplies its outlawed longing for all that cannot cross.
About the author
Shannon Maguire is the author of MYRMURS: AN EXPLODED SESTINA (BookThug, 2015), and FUR(L) PARACHUTE (BookThug, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Also a finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award for
Fruit Machine, and the Manitoba Magazine Award for Best Suite of Poems for "The Fur Parachute Suite" in
CV2, Maguire's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the
Best American Experimental Writing of 2014, Jacket2, Event, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, an MA in English from Brock University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studies noise and queer and Métis poetics. Born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie of predominantly Irish and Métis heritage, Shannon now divides her time between Waterloo, Toronto, and Sault Ste. Marie. Wherever she finds herself, she reads and writes incessantly.
