'Sleeping in Tall Grass' is an outstanding first poetry collection... In the opening long poem, 'Nowhere in Sight,' Therrien uses the physical experience of walking across the prairie as a metaphor for poetry while a walking rhythm sparks spiritual insight... Sleeping in Tall Grass is a wise book, erudite and philosophical at times but foremost a spiritual and redemptive work. ... Read more Volume 15, Issue 1 [Full review at http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol15/iss1/17]
Gillian Harding-Russell The Goose It's a complex and multi-layered book, offering poems that are rooted in the prairie landscape, featuring a multitude of voices that speak to the familial, the historical, the philosophical and the mystical. Many of the poems are dark, weighted and at times exquisitely painful... The personal stories he deconstructs show how the speaker submits, turns back to the land that begat him, until he sleeps in tall grass, until readers hear in 'Envoy,' the final poem, 'a voice singing of its own forgetting.'
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