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{"id":6811233878075,"title":"Congratulations, Rhododendrons","handle":"congratulations-rhododendrons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eCongratulations, Rhododendrons\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon, Germaine surfs the confluence of artificial and natural environments, technology, and our small but consequential feelings about them. At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. 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At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. Germaine’s poems scroll from a shrine in Lourdes to an augmented-reality sandbox, from a mall filled with loitering ex–love interests to a fairy-tale ending where all the men turn out to be chairs. 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Utterly contemporary and truly original, these poems meander; they play at the casual; they reflect at once a frolicking lyric sensibility and an incisive intelligence preoccupied with the big questions: the nature of nature, of time, perception, knowledge, and the self. Acknowledging this time of diminishment, of counting our losses, the poems nonetheless discover joy in the act of engaging.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMary Dalton, author of Hooking: A Book of Centos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Dalton, author of Hooking: A Book of Centos","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOETRY AT ITS MOST FRESH AND TIMELY: \u003c\\\/strong\u003eThematically, Germaine’s poems could not be more exciting or timely. She explores the intersections of technology and social life, and the tensions swirling around our relationships to our devices, to AI, to the media, to each other, and to the natural world. 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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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He even finds a great black jacket in a roadside ditch, but it doesn’t make him cool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then one day, as fate would have it, the red mini-van reappears, giving Dinnn a chance to visit to his relatives in The Wild, where new perils await an inexperienced city mosquito — being struck by a raindrop, zapped by a porch light or snapped up by a hungry fish at dusk. 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Recommended.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"CM Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Despite references to mosquitos’ short life spans and other trivia, Ondaatje keeps the actual bloodsucking and insect mortality to a minimum, focusing on Dinnn’s initial fear of flight and on his large family’s light misadventures.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A light and entertaining allegory about overcoming fear, being true to yourself, and finding your wings.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Ondaatje weaves his make-believe entomological utopia with a plethora of well-researched 'did-you-know' facts.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A city mosquito who longs to be cool finds friendship and adventure on an unexpected trip to The Wild.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2015-04-24","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"A city mosquito who longs to be cool finds friendship and adventure on an unexpected trip to The Wild.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 7
to 9
/ grades 2
to 4
The Mosquito Brothers
A city mosquito who longs to be cool finds friendship and adventure on an unexpected trip to The Wild.
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Shadow Price
Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.
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A beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world.
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Moritz’s twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms forwards the assertion that poetry, a primordial reality, is in the current moment both the equal of, and the antidote to, the rest of present-day civilization and its suicidal nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book unfolds in seven short sections that probe such topics as the crucial value of childhood; a human person’s development through maturity and age; the perennially avant-garde nature of great poetry no matter what time and place; and poetry’s inherent involvement with hope and creativity, life and feeling, freedom and love. \u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e also reprises Moritz’s longstanding celebration of common human conversation, the apex of which (he argues convincingly) is what we call “poetry”—meaning not just the art of verse, but our total access to the goodness of natural existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-19T16:08:58-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-19T15:54:32-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Course Adoption","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2024-09-24"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41696369180731,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012960","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Great Silent Ballad - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":248,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012960","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":41696370393147,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012977","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Great Silent Ballad - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012977","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_91c70813-116d-4765-8ccb-3ca2f79dfad0.jpg?v=1727554603"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_91c70813-116d-4765-8ccb-3ca2f79dfad0.jpg?v=1727554603","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: Great Silent Ballad: poems by A. 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Moritz’s twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms forwards the assertion that poetry, a primordial reality, is in the current moment both the equal of, and the antidote to, the rest of present-day civilization and its suicidal nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book unfolds in seven short sections that probe such topics as the crucial value of childhood; a human person’s development through maturity and age; the perennially avant-garde nature of great poetry no matter what time and place; and poetry’s inherent involvement with hope and creativity, life and feeling, freedom and love. \u003cem\u003eGreat Silent Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e also reprises Moritz’s longstanding celebration of common human conversation, the apex of which (he argues convincingly) is what we call “poetry”—meaning not just the art of verse, but our total access to the goodness of natural existence.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Great Silent Ballad
Beloved lyric poet A.F. Moritz’s twenty-second volume asserts poetry's spirit, equal and antidotal to the suicidal nature of present-day civilization.
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Satched
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Satched is Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection.
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Poems for All the Annettes
Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career.
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{"id":6811314225211,"title":"Explosion at the Poem Factory","handle":"explosion-at-the-poem-factory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA funny story, full of wordplay, brings poetry alive as never before!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons, but when automatic pianos arrive in town, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme, sprinkling in some similes and adding alliteration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut one day the machines malfunction, and there is a dramatic explosion at the poem factory. 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Explosion at the Poem Factory
This funny story, full of wordplay, brings poetry alive as never before!
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{"id":6811234041915,"title":"Selected Poems 1983–2020","handle":"selected-poems-19832020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award winner \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems 1983–2020\u003c\/em\u003e is Steven Heighton’s seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Incorporating a grouping of previously unpublished poetry and a selection of key poems from his six previous acclaimed collections, this timely volume showcases a generational talent whose work has been described by critics as “exhilarating,” “genuine,” and “arrestingly beautiful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeighton’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eStalin’s Carnival\u003c\/em\u003e,won the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1990. Subsequent books, which include bestselling novels, essays, and critical writings, confirmed Heighton as an exciting and important voice in Canadian letters. Heighton’s poetry is recognised for its technical skill and musicality, its erudition, and its empathy and unvarnished emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487000967","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003722","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006181","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\\\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\\\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\\\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\\\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 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He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\\\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\\\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\\\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\\\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\\\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\\\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\\\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\\\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\\\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. 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To listen, visit \u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.wolfeislandrecords.com\\\/stevenheighton\\\"\u003ewww.wolfeislandrecords.com\\\/stevenheighton\u003c\\\/a\u003e. \u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Heighton, Steven (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General’s Literary Award winner \u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\\\/em\u003e\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation.\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems 1983–2020\u003c\\\/em\u003e is Steven Heighton’s seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\\\/em\u003e. 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Heighton’s poetry is recognised for its technical skill and musicality, its erudition, and its empathy and unvarnished emotion.\u003c\\\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487009212","excerpt_0":"https:\\\/\\\/biblioshare.org\\\/BNCservices\\\/BNCServices.asmx\\\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487009212\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREVIOUS COLLECTION WON THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e Steven Heighton’s previous poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late\u003c\\\/em\u003e, received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, among other acclaim. This return to poetry after five years will get a lot of buzz.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED AUTHOR IN MANY FORMS AND GENRES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003eApart from his award-winning and highly acclaimed poetry collections, Steven Heighton is also the author of several works of fiction, including the novels \u003cem\u003eAfterland\u003c\\\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\\\/em\u003e. As well, he is the author of the forthcoming Groundwood picture book \u003cem\u003eThe Stray and the Stranger\u003c\\\/em\u003e based on his experience helping refugees in Greece. Heighton’s wide variety of writing can bring him attention far beyond what a poet normally garners.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST SELECTED WORK FROM ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CONTEMPORARY POETS:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e As an internationally prominent poet with many acclaimed collections, Heighton is well positioned for a work of selected poems. Previous Anansi selected poetry collections like A. F. Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow\u003c\\\/em\u003e and Michael Crummey’s \u003cem\u003eLittle Dogs\u003c\\\/em\u003e have brought new attention to the poets and sparked reassessments and retrospectives of their careers up to that point, and we expect Heighton’s collection to do the same for him.\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePREVIOUS MEDIA ATTENTION FOR STEVEN HEIGHTON:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"https:\\\/\\\/wiki.ezvid.com\\\/m\\\/11-poignant-books-from-exceptional-voices-in-modern-fiction-ZP6laov1KGXa0\\\"\u003e11 POIGNANT BOOKS FROM EXCELLENT WRITERS IN MODERN FICTION:\u003c\\\/a\u003e wiki.ezvid.com chooses \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\\\/em\u003e\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"https:\\\/\\\/m.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=PvOe6-EaXs0\\\"\u003eA-FRAME\u003c\\\/a\u003e: Katherine Leyton’s A-frame interview with Steven Heighton\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=CRfDceioOLc\\\"\u003eSOME OTHER JUST ONES\u003c\\\/a\u003e: An animated short by Caroline O'Neill\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=GnJ6vkJNyyc\\\"\u003eIF NOBODY CALLS, I'M GLAD\u003c\\\/a\u003e: An excerpt from a talk at Concordia, April 2011\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=VC5GBVYXNLM\\\"\u003eWORDS ALOUD 2011\u003c\\\/a\u003e: Steven Heighton reads “Herself, Revised” and “Dream”\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/_pKIDAgFadU\\\"\u003eCROSSING THE BORDERS BETWEEN US: THE ETHICS OF INTERVENTION \u0026 RESISTANCE\u003c\\\/a\u003e: Steven Heighton reads. First delivered at Queen’s University, May 2011, then at the KCHC AGM, June 2011\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.cbc.ca\\\/thenextchapter\\\/2011\\\/04\\\/11\\\/guy-gavriel-kay-and-stephen-heighton\\\/\\\"\u003eTHE NEXT CHAPTER\u003c\\\/a\u003e: On CBC Radio, Guy Gavriel Kay and Steven Heighton discuss the encroachment of social media and its effect on the creative process\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=Eco3985F0M8\\\"\u003eBOOKBITS\u003c\\\/a\u003e: Steven Heighton discusses his novel, \u003cem\u003eEvery Lost Country\u003c\\\/em\u003e\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\\\"http:\\\/\\\/www.authorsaloud.com\\\/fiction\\\/heighton.html\\\"\u003eAUTHORS ALOUD\u003c\\\/a\u003e: Steven Heighton reads from his novel, \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\\\/em\u003e\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"DREAM FRAGMENT\\r\\n\\r\\nIn those days the weather was jealous\\r\\nand would turn up at her house just to see\\r\\nwhat its cold winds could make of her face.\\r\\n\\r\\nAt her door she would be seen often\\r\\nspeaking to each of the seasons in turn\\r\\nthough with a marked preference\\r\\n(as many observed, and reported)\\r\\nfor winter\\r\\n\\r\\nwhich always stayed longest\\r\\nand left behind fading signs\\r\\nof its tenure aboveground.\\r\\n\\r\\nWho among us up here\\r\\nwouldn’t want his love, her love\\r\\nto carry a trace that clear, that\\r\\ncold, stoic and austere, withdrawing\\r\\nto regain itself, then resurging?\\r\\n\\r\\nWhat I wouldn’t do\\r\\nor undo (winter whispered\\r\\nin a voice akin to mine) to see\\r\\none more time what my touch\\r\\nmight make of your face.","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\\\/strong\u003e\u003c\\\/p\u003e\\r\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\\\/li\u003e\\r\\n\u003c\\\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A generous collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, a defining lyricist of his generation.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2021-04-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A generous collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, a defining lyricist of his generation.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Selected Poems 1983–2020
A generous collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, a defining lyricist of his generation.
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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Drift
A Trillium Book Award for Poetry winner, this collection reminds us that our solitude is painful, yet precious.
