In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.
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Notebookish
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So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.
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