'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.
- ISBN10 140888089X
- ISBN13 9781408880890
- Publish Date 5 October 2017 (first published 26 September 2017)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English