Looking for a turnout

"Lowbrow. Middlebrow. Highbrow. Freeing the regional from the universal. Such is the work of Joan Finnigan, which has been collected, selected, revised, and revisited in Looking For a Turnout, her first book of poems in more than a decade." "The award-winning historian of the Ottawa Valley is easily one of the most significant, if at times neglected, figures in Canadian letters today. Her tough-knuckled poems are no exception, ranging in material and expression as plural as the poet herself." "Like her histories, which have given rich timbre to the Valley's muted past, Finnigan's poems echo with the voices of the living and the dead: some recovered, some remembered, and some imagined."--BOOK JACKET.