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Past Imperfect by Suzanne Buffam |
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Presents & Law's favorite new book of poetry!
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"Buffam scans the world as if through the wrong end of a telescope, producing a remarkably exact account of the proximity of remote states, and the remoteness of intimate dealings. In their magical blend of reticence and forthrightness, these poems--inventive, acerbic, resolute--are utterly gripping."
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--Mark Levine
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won the 1998 CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Saturday Night, Books in Canada, Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review.
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Product Details:
Paperback: 69 pages
Publisher: Anansi (2005)
Printed and Bound in: Canada
ISBN: 0-88784-726-9
Presentsandlaw.com Sales Rank: #1 in Books
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Here is a poem from the book:
IN WHICH I AM ATTACKED
I thought it was spring
and went out without my hat, without
my hatchet. Wrong again. It was fall
and the swans were eyeing me coldly
from the centre of the lake,
preparing to wound me again
with the sight of their beautiful backs.
A little boy ran up
and pulled my hair and ran off.
For months you're a smudge on the rug,
watching the wind blow, maybe taking
your pulse every hour or so, and then
all of a sudden, you're It.
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