Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.
These poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, "Here one can live at any dark system's edge." The Quiet is sinister and aerial.
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.
These poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, "Here one can live at any dark system's edge." The Quiet is sinister and aerial.
| Published By | House of Anansi Press Inc — Apr 19, 2014 |
| Specifications | 96 pages | 5.5 in x 8.5 in |
| Keywords | Canadian; Satchel Paige; Poetry; Silence; Imagination; Myth; History; Nature; women writers; |
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ANNE-MARIE TURZA is the author of The Quiet (House of Anansi Press) and the chapbook Slip Minute (Baseline Press). She lives on Vancouver Island. |
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ANNE-MARIE TURZA is the author of The Quiet (House of Anansi Press) and the chapbook Slip Minute (Baseline Press). She lives on Vancouver Island. |
“...The Quiet is an evocative, beautifully executed collection that abides like a roaming spirit.” —Quill & Quire