Pluviophile
Published on 7. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-88971-374-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, "The Place Where Words Go to Die," winner of The Malahat Review's 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where "saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saixfrage." From here the poems shift to diverse locations, from Montreal to Kolkata, from the moon to the gates of heaven."--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Publishing group
Harbour Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
108 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88971-374-1 (9780889713741)
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Yusuf Saadi won the Malahat Review's 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. At other times, his writing has appeared (or is forthcoming) in magazines including Brick, the Malahat Review, Vallum, Grain, CV2, Prairie Fire, PRISM international, Hamilton Arts & Letters, This and untethered. He is also an executive editor at Sewer Lid magazine. He holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria.