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Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection
The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative
compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity
for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019.
The fifty ruggedly independent poems gathered here tackle themes of
emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They
are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their language, and
moving in their use of the personal to explore fraught political
realities. They emit a cloud of invisible energy, a charge.
Featuring work by: Colleen Baran * Gary Barwin * Billy-Ray Belcourt
* Ali Blythe * Marilyn Bowering * Julie Bruck * Sara Cassidy * Sue
Chenette * Chelsea Coupal * Kayla Czaga * Sadiqa de Meijer * Adebe
DeRango-Adem * Chris Evans * Beth Follett * Stevie Howell *
Danielle Hubbard * Dallas Hunt * Catherine Hunter * Sonnet L'Abbe *
Ben Ladouceur * Tess Liem * D.A. Lockhart * Jessie Loyer * Annick
MacAskill * Domenica Martinello * Laura Matwichuk * Katie McGarry *
Jimmy McInnes * A.F. Moritz * Alexandra Oliver * Alycia Pirmohamed
* Marion Quednau * Claudia Coutu Radmore * Shazia Hafiz Ramji *
Shaun Robinson * Yusuf Saadi * Rebecca Salazar * Ellie Sawatzky *
David Seymour * Kevin Spenst * Mallory Tater * Souvankham
Thammavongsa * Russell Thornton * Daniel Scott Tysdal * William
Vallieres * Katherena Vermette * Douglas Walbourne-Gough * Cara
Waterfall * Gillian Wigmore * Ian Williams
The wisdom of "Kabbalah" is a centuries old science that
investigates the nature of our relationship with the force we refer
to as, "The Creator". Through this investigation Kabbalists of the
past have passed down, to all of humanity, a method by which each
of us can actually realise our role in the universe and how
humanity can evolve above the suffering so prevalent in the world
today. The inspirations contained in this book are derived from the
works of authentic Kabbalists. Meaning, only Kabbalists who
actually attained the spiritual levels of which they speak. The
truth in these inspirations is clearly evident to those seeking the
answer to the question, "What is my purpose"?
"It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this." In
Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric
ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the
form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace
Stevens' phrase, "a revelation in words by means of the words." The
epiphany here is not only the poet's. It's ours. A book about the
songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect
us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of
the lineages (literary, artistic, familial) that it braids
together-to become, as Richard Outram puts it, an "unspoken /
Stranger no longer."
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