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Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair's debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven's Thieves). This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair's twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet's evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair's masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Green Pepper
Glossy as a photograph, the bent
circumference catching
the light on its rim. Like a car’s
dented fender, the owner desperate
to assess the damage, unable
to say, like the sun, it can’t
be helped.
Conspicuous and irregular
all its life, born
with its eyes shut tight,
as though there really were a collision
it was trying to avoid. But it hasn’t
happened yet—there is only
the impact of light: it has never
been in love, never drifted apart,
never fantasized about another
fragrant vegetable, never
been flattered, never been denied,
never wanted more than it has.
A life governed by absence:
the gleam of white
on its hollow body.
"Sue Sinclair grew up on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk in Newfoundland and Labrador and is currently an uninvited guest living on Welastekwiyik* Territory, where she teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She holds a PhD in philosophy and wrote her dissertation on the intersections of beauty and ethics. She is also a poetry editor for Brick Books and is also editor of the Fiddlehead, Canada’s oldest literary journal." (from the back flap)
*the “e”s in this word should be upside down and backwards ( )