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A major retrospective that will stand as an indispensable record of turn-of-the-millennium poetry.
“(Wier’s) directed and charged language is a reminder of how vital and vivid poetry can be.”—American Poet
Interconnected poems in voices of a band of explorers. An epic of memory, hope and questioning.
A deftly woven tenth collection from a respected poet with a rapidly ascending reputation.
Arrestingly direct and emotionally sophisticated poems of mourning, loss, and absence.
Dara Wier's poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence."--Harvard Review
"A new collection of poetry by Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier)"--
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How does a love poet fall out of her marriage and back in love with the world? What happens when you grow up to be the "kind of person who..."? These fairytales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wanderlust, for those who believe in loving this world through art. A singular flow of bewildered brilliance, Emily Carr's swiftly flowing sequence of love poems--divorce poems, really--engages the very real problem of falling out of love because (admit it!) you never think you will. No matter how many times it's happened before. Imagine it: not limiting love to the erotic but embracing endeavor, struggle, social change, and political action. Love as conscio...