The unique "accordion" format of this book, created by novelist and poet Anne Michaels alongside artist Bernice Eisenstein, offers a striking visual and literary experience. Its rare design is complemented by thought-provoking content, making it a captivating piece that appeals to both art and literature enthusiasts.
Anne Michaels, acclaimed for her poetry, showcases her talent in two award-winning collections, The Weight of Oranges and Miner's Pond, which are recognized for their depth and lyrical beauty. These works, along with her latest collection, Skin Divers, form a cohesive exploration of themes such as loss and memory. Each volume complements the others, highlighting Michaels's evolution as a poet and her ability to evoke profound emotions through language.
A collection of poems by Anne Michaels. The poems are meditations onhow love changes in order to survive, how we move from "obsoletescience" to new perceptions, and how, in her words, "the sameloneliness that closes us/ Opens us again".
From the author of "Fugitive Pieces", this work provides a collection of poems, meditations on how love changes in order to survive and how we move from "obsolete science" to new perceptions.
-- Fugitive Pieces In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and incapable of'. Here is the paradox at the heart of loss, the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that 'death ... give/not only take from us'. A sea in darkness, a woman's hair shining in light, rain falling ... how quiet must a voice be in order to be heard? In this way, desire is evoked with intensity and precision. By the end, we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core of existence; we enter a space that is 'not inside, not outside: / dusk's doorway, ' where love remains alive.
The first collection of poems by the renowned Canadian writer. Contains: Lake Of Two Rivers, What Moves In Us, The Day Of Jack Chambers, Anna, A Height Of Years, Memoriam, Turning Twenty-Three, Depth Of Field, Another Year, January, Women On A Beach, Pushed Into The Dark, Near Ashdod, Rain Makes Its Own Night, Letters From Martha, The Weight Of Oranges, and Words For The Body.
For fans of Mary Poppins, heroine Miss Petitfour and her feline friends return for more flights of fancy in this cozy, charming collection of illustrated stories, now in paperback. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size" for a "single, magical day." With her sixteen cats and the aid of a tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour soars — which is to say, she rises high in the air and flies — over her charmingly eccentric village, encountering adventures along the way. One never knows where the wind will take her in this delightfully seasonal collection of magical outings: perhaps to the aid of dearly loved friends and neighbors, including a hapless handyman and an onion-loving baby, or to a coconut-confetti parade, or in search of keys, lucky charms or even simply the perfect tablecloth for her next flight. A witty, whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrate language, storytelling and all the pleasures of life, large and small!
Anne Michaels' startlingly beautiful novel tells the interlocking stories of two men from different generations whose lives have been transformed by war.
Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the paisley print), catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure - with her many cats (Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdala, Earring, Grigorovich, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles) dangling paw-to-tail behind her.In five utterly captivating stories of gentle adventure, delicious edibles (with cheese for the cats), occasional peril and heart-zinging warmth, poet and novelist Anne Michaels (author of bestselling, award-winning Fugitive Pieces) makes a charming, purrfect debut as a children's author.
A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried Polish village in Nazi-occupied Poland, during the Second World War. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. He is smuggled out to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and humanist Athos Roussos. There, in the seclusion and tenderness of Athos's house, they spend the last years of the Occupation in a precarious refuge made lavish with poetry and cartography, botany and art. In the novel's second part, Ben, a young professor and an expert in the drama of weather and biography, meets the now sixty-year-old Jacob and his ardent and glorious Michaela at the home of a mutual friend. The quiet elation Ben senses in the older man, and Ben's own connection to the wounding legacies of the war, kindle a fascination with Jakob and his writing, disturbing the safety of his carefully ordered world. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
