Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems by Michael Crummey (English) Paperback Book

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Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey's first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. Of living with the absence of those who have shaped and sometimes scarred us. Unafraid of confronting the darker corners of desire or of digging into the past to make sense of the present, Crummey has already given us a tremendous body of work. Little Dogs showcases the evolution of one the most distinct and celebrated Canadian writers of his generation.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. He was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship in recognition of "exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise" in his work to date. His most recent novel, The Innocents, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2017. He lives in St. John's, where he is starting to feel his age.

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…this is poetry of pure survival. * Overcast *Whether watching his mother keep vigil at his father's deathbed, or chiding himself for looking through an old photo album of his wife's first marriage and feeling like a cheap voyeur, this poet brings an exhilarating self-critical eye to poems worth a determined stroll through a gale to a bookstore. * Arc Poetry Magazine *

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...this is poetry of pure survival.

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Whether watching his mother keep vigil at his father's deathbed, or chiding himself for looking through an old photo album of his wife's first marriage and feeling like a cheap voyeur, this poet brings an exhilarating self-critical eye to poems worth a determined stroll through a gale to a bookstore.

Details ISBN1487000960 Author Michael Crummey Short Title LITTLE DOGS Pages 288 Language English ISBN-10 1487000960 ISBN-13 9781487000967 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1965 Year 2016 Subtitle New and Selected Poems Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Place of Publication Concord Country of Publication Canada UK Release Date 2016-05-19 Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Publication Date 2016-05-19 Alternative 9781487000981 DEWEY 811.54 Audience General AU Release Date 2016-07-18 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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