All We Saw
Published on 5. October 2017
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-4088-8089-0 (ISBN)
Description
'Writing of dangerously beautiful intensity ... Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph
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A mesmerising, luminously beautiful poetry collection from Anne Michaels, internationally acclaimed poet and bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces
In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here is the paradox at the heart of loss, the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that 'death ... give/not only take from us'. A sea in darkness, a woman's hair shining in light, rain falling... how quiet must a voice be in order to be heard? In this way, desire is evoked with intensity and precision.
By the end, we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core of existence; we enter a space that is 'not inside, not outside: / dusk's doorway,' where love remains alive.
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A mesmerising, luminously beautiful poetry collection from Anne Michaels, internationally acclaimed poet and bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces
In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here is the paradox at the heart of loss, the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that 'death ... give/not only take from us'. A sea in darkness, a woman's hair shining in light, rain falling... how quiet must a voice be in order to be heard? In this way, desire is evoked with intensity and precision.
By the end, we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core of existence; we enter a space that is 'not inside, not outside: / dusk's doorway,' where love remains alive.
Reviews / Votes
Delicate, piercing, brief, enduring ... It's a small book but one that keeps on giving * Emerald Street * These poems try to find their relationship with what is beyond language - not only death, but the shared inner life of intentions and ideas, let alone every other kind of intimacy. These poems explore our relationship to mystery and what the body knows in its mortality and what the body might prove ... All We Saw asserts that "death must give/not only take from us." These poems assert not what we hold onto, but what we hold * Big Issue * Michaels is a great poet of loss, and the challenges of memory in the face of it ... Michaels produces passages of lyrical beauty * Guardian * The poems in The Weight of Oranges go way beyond games or fashion or politics ...They represent the human being entire -- Michael Ondaatje Writing of dangerously beautiful intensity ... Magnificent * Sunday Telegraph * Skin Divers is a series of meditations on the intensity of love and has an intimacy at times so tender it hurts * The Times * Anne Michaels guides us to the top of some extraordinary peaks of feeling and perception * Independent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8089-0 (9781408880890)
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All We Saw
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Anne Michaels is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Fugitive Pieces, which won multiple prizes including the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was made into a major film. Her second novel, The Winter Vault, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of several highly acclaimed poetry volumes, the selected volume Poems, and, most recently, Correspondences, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her books have been translated into more than forty-five languages. Anne Michaels lives in Toronto, and is the city's Poet Laureate.