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Hagiography
Jen Currin
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Description for Hagiography
Paperback. Includes poems that present thought as a complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no ... Read more
Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451977
SKU
V9781552451977
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About Jen Currin
Jen Currin is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west. She has published one book of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and has been published in journals including The Fiddlehead, The Massachusetts Review, VERSE, and The Mississippi Review. She lives in Vancouver.
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