Fortress of Chairs
$9.95
Awards:
Winner, 1992 Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry
Publication Date: January 16, 1998
84 pages
9 x 6 Inches
ISBN: 9781550650242
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Astonishing poetry that moves between conversational simplicity and dense metaphor by the author of the story collections If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever [Penguin] and Our Lady of All the Distances [HarperCollins]. Readers who know Elisabeth Harvor as an accomplished writer of fiction will experience the thrill of discovery with The Fortress of Chairs, her first book of poetry.
About the Author
ELISABETH HARVOR’s first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Toronto Star in 2000 and her most recent story collection is Let Me Be the One, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, among them The Malahat Review, PRISM international, The New Yorker, and anthologies in Canada, the US, Mexico, and Europe. She won the Alden Nowlan Award in 2000 and was the 2003 winner of the Marian Engel Award.
Other books by Elisabeth Harvor: Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring, Room at the Heart of Things: The Work that Came to Me
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