
Description
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from poet Jen Currin, winner of the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda finalist.
While Trinity Street is in fact an actual street in Vancouver, it is also the site of an imaginary garden and imperfect utopia in the title poem of this new collection. Currin's poems weave together the meditative and the disruptive, the queer and quotidian, and the worlds of the dead and the living. Connections are made through prayer and protest; friendships are forged on a planet challenged by climate crisis, collective grief, and the perils of late capitalism.
These poems vibrate with unexpected shifts and precise, startling imagery, the touchstones of a poet whose work critics have described as "thrilling," "emotionally evocative," and "revelatory."
Product Details
Publisher | House of Anansi Press |
Publish Date | April 04, 2023 |
Pages | 104 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781487011628 |
Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
JEN CURRIN is the author of seven books, including Hider/Seeker: Stories, which was a finalist for a ReLit Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and The Inquisition Yours, which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award and was a Lambda finalist. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional territories of the Multnomah, Chinook, Clackamas, and other tribes, Currin lives in New Westminster, BC, on unceded Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, and Musqueam territories and teaches creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Reviews
"Elegant and melodious poems ... From transit rides to office tasks, Currin brews heady substance from quotidian routines." -- Vancouver Sun
"Oh, the sensitive, careful language, each word picked full of colour and taste. I want to eat it. I want to sing it." -- SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors Judge
"Wry, shrewd, and brassy ... What Currin is after as a poet and in poetry is beyond an either/or premise. ... Moving and discovering poems." -- Canthius
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