Jeanette Lynes
In The Aging Cheerleader's Alphabet, Lynes has crafted a moving portrait of a woman whose humour and chutzpah challenge a world that sees her as a relic of another age. Part nostalgia, part cultural critique with respect to women's experience of aging, Lynes' Cheerleader does handsprings, walkovers, and roundoffs over the very language that seeks to define her.
01.11.10
Review of The Aging Cheerleader's Alpabet in Canadian Literature
ISBN 1-894469-151
$14.95 CDN
$12.95 US
80 pp
"With nimble imagination and humour that is tough and vulnerable as the heart of country and western, Lynes' poems speak in their own sharply tanged and quite unignorable voice."
Don McKay