Refabulations Front Cover

Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781772015102
Pages: 231
Pub. Date: March 14 2023
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 1"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE023040

  • POETRY / Women Authors
  • POETRY / Canadian
  • POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places

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Refabulations
Selected Longer Poems
By Sharon Thesen
Edited by Erín Moure

The collected longer poems of brilliant Canadian poet Sharon Thesen

Refabulations collects and reanimates the longer and serial poems from Sharon Thesen’s œuvre, from her first book in 1980 to today. It is a record of a life in language, created by a dexterous and renegade poet whose mind is ever at work in the poem. A self-described “receiver,” Thesen energizes her decades of vital work by providing new neighbours and contexts for a body of poetry that has always recognized disaster, laughed at folly, and made its home in the vigour of the Now. Refabulations includes a short introductory essay by the editor, Erín Moure, an afterword-interview with the poet, and a bibliography.

"The overall organization of Refabulations is more thematic than chronological … while these groupings attune us to fixations that persist across Thesen’s poems, they also display her formal inventiveness and the restlessness that sustains her engagement with the long poem as a form … The forms these poems make, as they evolve to meet the world, is complex enough to unsettle our own prior readings and provides its own reason for encountering these poems anew." – Steven Maye, EVENT Magazine

"A very fine book" – Cathy Ford, The British Columbia Review