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On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's…
accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained, the word-shard. In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues—which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems—the poet and the clerk invoke a host of writers, philosophers, and artists, from Jacob Lawrence, Lola Kiepja, and Walter Benjamin to John Coltrane, Josephine Turalba, and Jorge Luis Borges. Through these essay poems, Brand explores memory, language, culture, and time while intimately interrogating the act and difficulty of writing, the relationship between the poet and the world, and the link between author and art. Winner of the 2019 Trillium Book Award. 2018.
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A muscle's "twitch force" is a measurement of its energy potential. It's history dependent: you can forget it, but like…
so much else, it's engraved on you where you can't see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Redhill's first collection of poetry in eighteen years, 'Twitch Force' is grounded in its title as an essential source of its gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In "Ingredients," heredity's recipe is told via short form family narrative; in "My Arrangements," a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women's beach volleyball team; while in "The Women," human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: "I'm beautiful; I have my mother's feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women." This is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential ignorance, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: things that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear.' Twitch Force' is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada's bravest and most original lyric poets. 2019.