Adele Graf poems have appeared in Canadian journals including The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Room, and Vallum. Adele lives in Ottawa where she writes and sings. math for couples is her first collection of poetry.
math for couples is a warm and playful debut collection. You can
feel the pleasure Adele Graf takes in the words she juggles and the
forms she explores in this very intimate adventure.--Stuart Ross,
author of A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent,
Adele Graf's poems explore the inner worlds of family, including
grandmother, father, mother, husband, childhood self and aging self
with an openness and honesty that is stunning, using her pen as
both scalpel and microscope. A master of slant rhyme, she is also
unafraid to experiment in the far reaches of poetics; and you'll
never think of popcorn in the same way again.--Mark Frutkin
Whether she's revisiting fraught scenes from her past with wry
humour or facing them down deadpan, Adele Graf infuses whatever she
touches--bric-a-brac, childhood haunts, or stricken relatives--with
a vividness that places them stage-centre. Charting a memorable
path through several generations of family upheaval and
continuance, she evokes her grandmother's New Jersey milliner shop,
her father's tragic early death, and her own journey to late-life
plenitude with a sharp eye for the waystations that lead from
disillusionment to delight.--Peter Richardson
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