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282 | Cassidy McFadzean (Crying Dress)

Posted on March 26, 2024August 11, 2024 By Sammy Younan No Comments on 282 | Cassidy McFadzean (Crying Dress)

My Summer Lair Chapter #282: When Was The Last Time You Wore Your Crying Dress?

If you don’t know what a Crying Dress is, stay tuned for that.

You know me…I have issues with pants (“Down With Pants!”) so I’m not always current when it comes to fashion. (Ironically, I’m often fashionably late.)

What stands out when you read Crying Dress is Cassidy ties her poetry to a number of locations.

Location is one of the hallmarks of Cassidy McFadzean’s Crying Dress:

“I walked through the Annex at 4 a.m.” Page 64, the poem is Energy Exchange.

“Raisin-royal, a goose at Kew Gardens wandered this eulogy…” Page 23, the poem is Just Like I Like.

“In St. Alban’s Square we sat and ate paper.” Page 28, the poem is Nursery.

You know those places…you work or shop there, maybe even had a crush on somebody cute at Kew Gardens.

Your magnetic relationship to those locations is prompted by her poetic acknowledgement. (It’s the same thing when you see a big band like Coldplay or Rolling Stones live and the lead singer says: “So…we were out on Queen Street eating at Queen Mother Cafe…” and the audience loses it. The band displays local knowledge which in rock ‘n’ roll is a love language.)

Other hallmarks in Cassidy’s writing include space and architecture. Aren’t those the same things?

In Crying Dress you as the reader are surrounded by surroundings.

I dunno how else to describe Crying Dress in a way that is tantalizing. Poetry is a hard sell, yo.

Thankfully Cassidy has the same problem so let’s start there. How do you talk about poetry?

Especially as easily as you talk about movies and TV shows?

Cassidy McFadzean @ W • T • F

Host Sammy Younan

Recorded: Wednesday March 13, 2024 at 2:00 pm (EST)

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