Sommer extends the sonnet beyond its traditional territory of love between man and woman to embrace the natural world around him and the deteriorating ecology of the planet. The result is a rich weave of past and present, love and pain, language and world. >>
This book is about the relationship between body and word, body’s longing for word, word’s longing to be embodied. It is about being in relationship with another person, self and other. Experience, like rain, falls through a tree’s canopy.
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In 1937, the Clareys are a close and loving family until their lives are transformed the night Edie, their wilful daughter and sister, vanishes, leaving no trace, no clue, as to what happened to her. >>
Staff Sargeant Dan Laurenson is investigating a missing person's case, which turns into something rather different. Could this missing person's case be connected to the several strange attacks? >>
The Time Between is a series of conversations with a contemplative heft, only in this case infected and inflected by operation-manual speech and military-industrial-complex mores and malaise—as if the other had been forced to contemplate violence in a real way, had been forced out into the crowded world, forced to let in multiple and troubled points of view. >>
As they explore love and life balanced on the edge of a city, in a mobile home perched precariously, metaphorically on the fringe of society, the poems in The Trailer dig past the daily detritus of the forsaken lover's world of tin-walled hope and melamine dreams to reveal humour, beauty, and joy.
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Inspector Aliette Nouvelle's investigation into the murder of a Basel art gallery security guard and an unknown masterpiece leads to an art fraud conspiracy that her colleagues in Switzerland are already looking into. As the bodies pile up on both sides of the French-Swiss border, she throws herself into the case, using work as an excuse to get some distance from her faltering relationship with Commissaire Claude Néon. >>
The poems in The Unseen World leap out from the page and show us a world hiding beneath our perceived history and reality: dead Spanish poets in bus station gift shops, Soren Kierkegaard taking coffee at IKEA, and Henry Miller emerging from the 14th Street Subway are just a few of the evocative images David Elkins brings to the surface of a world unseen. >>
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