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Hagiography

Jen Currin

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English
Coach House Books
14 April 2004
Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life's barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin's poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography

only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds ... This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life.
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Imprint:   Coach House Books
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   141g
ISBN:   9781552451977
ISBN 10:   1552451976
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jen Currin is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west. She has published one book of poems, The Sleep of Four Cities and has been published in journals including The Fiddlehead, The Massachusetts Review, VERSE, and The Mississippi Review. She lives in Vancouver.

Reviews for Hagiography

Hagiography is a delight for the reader's heart and mind: hogios , meaning sacred, plus graphein , to write. One lovely poem after another guides us through what holds us like a light. -Robin Blaser


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