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Strange Attractor
  • Published: 10 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780771007125
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $32.99
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Strange Attractor

Poems

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A stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop and Is.

A stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop and Is.

All of us are many selves within our lifetimes--one that is thrust upon us at birth, shaped during youth, and reconstructed throughout our lives. Who is this self? Who is this self in relation to others? In the coming-to-be of childhood or in the midst of illness, we face an unknown self within the one that is known. Even after death, we appear as fluid as water in the memories of those who knew us best. Strange Attractor reveals our multiple, shifting selves with power and tenderness, as if Simpson were showing us how to shed our skins.
  • Published: 10 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780771007125
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for Strange Attractor

Praise for Anne Simpson and Is:

  • "With the experimentalism of Anne Carson and the imagism of Anne Michaels, Anne Simpson explores the globe of the heart." --Halifax Chronicle-Herald
  • "Anne Simpson's voice is instantly recognizable. . . . [She writes] poems of extraordinary range, intelligence, and empathy." --Jury citation, Pat Lowther Memorial Award
  • "Simpson turns our attention to the sharp edges of life, and she does it with language that juxtaposes beauty with death, creating internal tension in the poems. Simpson looks at death and loss with an unsentimental eye." --Canadian Literature