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1) False Creek
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In this new and masterful collection, Jane Munro balances her signature themes—dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world—with an urgent, more directly political voice.
“False Creek”, Munro's eighth collection of poetry, responds to the discovery of sodded-over graves around residential schools and the elimination of Sən̓aq, home to fifteen thousand Sḵwx̱wúmesh before the genocide caused by European diseases. Poems...
2) Blue Sonoma
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In Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of...
3) Glass Float
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Lines that attend to shore, air, water, sand, birds, and other women; in their gathered particulars they bring us close to the concavities, the complex familiarity and mystery of conscious experience.
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Jane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know? In Grief Notes & Animal Dreams, Munro's third collection, we enter the condition Gaston Bachelard has called reverie, strange and miraculous beauty glowing in the suspended underwater light of the heart.
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