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Nothing You Can Carry
By (author):
Susan Alexander
9781771871983
Paperback, Trade
English
General Trade
POETRY / Canadian / General
Sep 15, 2020
$20.00 CAD
Active 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 in | 250 gr Thistledown Press
Active 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 in | 250 gr Thistledown Press
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Nothing You Can Carry is rooted in a keen, even holy, sense of place within the natural world. Today that place is haunted by anxiety over a precarious present and a darker future. These poems take an honest, sometimes ironic and sometimes broken-hearted look at how the self and society are implicated in our climate crisis and the systemic complexities surrounding it.
Yet life goes on. The collection moves through environmental fears and spills into all the areas that absorb the self – memory, story, family, love.
These poems are vivid and vulnerable, humorous and emotional. They summon the deeper mysteries of being human in a world that is increasingly separate from the sacred.
Susan Alexander is the author of The Dance Floor Tilts. Her poems have received multiple awards and appeared in chapbooks, anthologies, several literary magazines in Canada and the U.K., as well as on Vancouver buses and in the woods at Whistler. Most recently her suite of poems, Vigil, received the 2019 Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry. Susan lives and writes on Bowen Island/ Nexwle´lexm in Howe Sound/Atl’kitsem, unceded territory of the Squamish Nation.
