About the Book
This is Marsha Barber's fourth collection. Her writing has appeared in such periodicals as the Literary Review of Canada, The Walrus and The New Quarterly. In addition to her other awards, Marsha has been longlisted for the national ReLit Award and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She's been a featured reader at poetry events around the world, from London to Laos. Marsha is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Praise for Marsha Barber's Work:
The poems in this book are spellbinding in their exploration of lives touched by joy and unravelled by sorrow. The lines on the page and the soul searching that undergird them reveal Barber at her finest as a writer and most complex as a human being trying to fathom the vagaries of love and fate.
- Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of
Brown and Return
From her first book, Marsha Barber brought to poetry a mature voice, a keen eye for striking imagery, and an astute ear for the revealing phrase. Barber in her fourth collection furthers her reputation for intimate, compelling poems about family, local and global events and far-flung travels. She concludes this engaging collection with a sequence of stunning clarity about her mother's decline into senility, and Barber's own aging, with characteristic wincing insight and dialogue that sears the heart.
- Bruce Hunter, author of In the Bear's House
and Two O'Clock Creek
