{"product_id":"refabulations-selected-longer-poems-paperback","title":"Refabulations: Selected Longer Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Thesen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eErín Moure\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected longer poems of brilliant Canadian poet Sharon Thesen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefabulations\u003c\/i\u003e collects and reanimates the longer and serial poems from Sharon Thesen's oeuvre, 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. \u003ci\u003eRe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003efabulations\u003c\/i\u003e includes a short introductory essay by the editor, Erín Moure, an afterword-interview with the poet, and a bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, editor, and teacher \u003cb\u003eSharon Thesen\u003c\/b\u003e has spent almost all her life in British Columbia. \u003ci\u003eArtemis Hates Romance, \u003c\/i\u003e her first book of poetry in 1980, was followed by thirteen more, three of them finalists for the Governor General's Award: \u003ci\u003eConfabulations\u003c\/i\u003e (1984); \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of the Long Dash\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and \u003ci\u003eThe Good Bacteria\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). She edited \u003ci\u003eThe Vision Tree: \u003c\/i\u003e S\u003ci\u003eelected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eby Phyllis Webb (Governor General's Award, 1982), two editions of the \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Long Poem Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (\u003c\/i\u003e1991 and 2001), and, with Ralph Maud, two volumes of correspondence between American poet Charles Olson and book-designer and Joyce scholar Frances Boldereff (1999 and 2012). \u003ci\u003eThe Receiver \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wig-Maker \u003c\/i\u003e(with Janet Gallant, 2021)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare her most recent collections. She lives in the BC Lake Country. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErín Moure has published over fifty books: poetry, essays, memoir, as well as translations and co-translations of poetry from French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Portuñol and Ukrainian into English. Recent works are \u003ci\u003ePlanetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure \u003c\/i\u003e(Wesleyan, 2017), \u003ci\u003eSitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots\u003c\/i\u003e (New Star, 2017), Wilson Bueno's \u003ci\u003eParaguayan Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(Nightboat, 2017), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eUxío Novoneyra's \u003ci\u003eThe Uplands: Book of the Courel and other poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Veliz Books, 2020), Juan Gelman's \u003ci\u003eSleepless Nights Under Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003e(Eulalia Books, 2020), Chantal Neveu's \u003ci\u003eThis Radiant Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Book*hug, 2020), and Chus Pato's \u003ci\u003eThe Face of the Quartzes\u003c\/i\u003e (Veliz Books, 2021). She lives in Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 231\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.9 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732012765247,"sku":"9781772015102","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0be8d870fdfcc2e7e9d3531d1ab5657f.webp?v=1765130948","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/refabulations-selected-longer-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}