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  • Published: 22 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780771024856
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 120
  • RRP: $39.99
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"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Post

"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Post

WE ACCESS THE MIRACLE


Through ease
Is the hypothesis.
The task is to source from the quiet

Instruction
And from confusion
The instinct organized

As impulse and
Into my arms as extension.
I walk back to the hotel

With two limes and a watermelon.
Tonight:
Water and watermelon

  • Published: 22 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9780771024856
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 120
  • RRP: $39.99
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  • "The closest thing to thinking is the fragment of pure thought. The closest thing to pure poetry is the alignment of these fragments. In total, Aisha Sasha John thinks, purely, aligns, beautifully, turning the poetry to thought and the thought to poetry. Poetry that insists itself, that sings, asides, snaps, and screams, like all pure thought." --Vanessa Place 

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