The Counting House
Akin to a bookkeeper's accounting of what's given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In forensic sequences of inquisition, scrutiny, and reckoning, Ridley reveals the maiden as muse as modern darling � unhoused and exacting � in "all of her violet forms."
SANDRA RIDLEY is the author of several books of poetry including Vixen,Silvija, a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize, and The Counting House. She has been nominated for and won many prizes including the bpNichol Chapbook Award, a Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing, and the Alfred G. Bailey Prize. Ridley has taught at Sage Hill Writing, Carleton University, and has been a mentor with Ottawa’s Supportive Housing and Mental Health Services “Footprints to Recovery” program for people living with mental illness. Her work has been anthologized and translated into German and French. Sandra grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and lives in Ottawa.
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