Now Shaidle is a hard-line Conservative hellraiser. But regardless; she is a poet of high calibre, and [Acoustic Ladyland: Kathy Shaidle Unplugged
] shows the canadian experience just as much as (and her storytelling reminds me somewhat of) anything by Mordecai Richler, Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Atwood (although I have a feeling at least one of those three she will cringe at being compared to) does. What attracted me to this book is her depiction of actual, live real anarcho-socialist-ish people (having been one herself she should know). From what I can tell, she has that much spot on, even down to the faults that sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves(“we” *are* a little over-represented in the neurotic issues characteristic, the non-responsible and the brought-up-from-working-class-parents-with-heat ones as well).
