A Walker in the City A Walker in the City

A Walker in the City

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Publisher Description

Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry



A fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.



In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook's walker, a young woman, is a character being written by an "old city poet," who is in turn being written by another poet, for whom the young woman, "Ms. Em Cook," has been an amanuensis. Always witty and often hilarious, feather-light in touch, the book is an entertaining exploration of serious issues: youth and age; life, death and rebirth; the (dis)connection of language and reality; tradition and the now. It is an assemblage of seven nesting sections, each of them a sort of chapbook speaking to each of the others and rounding out a long poem of great freshness. A Walker in the City is one of a kind, one of the most original books Brick has ever published.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2011
September 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
32
Pages
PUBLISHER
Brick Books
SELLER
eBOUND Canada
SIZE
891.3
KB

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