Desecrations

Author: Matt Rader
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

A luminous new collection of poems about entering middle age, living a life of books, and trying to know what it means to be or not be from or of a place.

If pattern is information, and verse the mind's conversation with Time, Matt Rader's Desecrations animates a theatre of silence we recognize as mystery. Building on an already astonishing body of work, in lines so fluid and uncannily resonant they feel cousined to the dream world, Rader insists that intimate moments bear the cargo of both past and future, antiquity and grim projection, ancestry and unborn selves, resulting in poems of kaleidoscopic beauty and strangeness. These singular, musical evocations eschew argument in favour of a welcoming, arms-wide abandon, and an ethics of porousness and connection. By some alchemy of voice, detail, collision, and disobedience to chronology, Desecrations reveals the imagination as a worthy location of real experience. These poems are a new way to orbit around a locus of damage, a new fabric of signs and singing that we can't help but realize we'd been yearning for all along.

About Matt Rader
MATT RADER is the author of three previous collections of poetry and a book of stories, What I Want to Tell Goes Like This. His work has appeared in journals and magazines across North America, Europe, and Australia. He teaches Creative Writing in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

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SKU BK-9780771072482
Barcode # 9780771072482
Brand McClelland & Stewart
Artist / Author Matt Rader
Shipping Weight 0.3700kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.210m
Assembled Length 21.100m
Assembled Height 1.000m
Assembled Width 14.500m
Type Paperback

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