Electric Affinities
- Publisher
- Signature Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2022
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927426661
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773241043
- Publish Date
- Jul 2022
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
In Electric Affinities, Michael Pacey's second collection, everyday household items become points of departure into wonder -- a handsaw becomes a “bird hooded, strung with jesses, strops with its beak.” A cup becomes “a tool for gripping liquids.” Mirrors are “windows turned inside out, always concentrating, trying to memorize each detail” and scissors are “Perpetually plural, twin sisters fastened together.” While it is Pacey’s particular magic to discover the amazing alchemical properties of everyday objects, in Electric Affinities he also illuminates the poetic “current” that connects them to larger questions of human nature, language and the environment.
About the author
Michael Pacey has been a fixture of his hometown's literary scene for more than fifty years, publishing his early poems in the Fiddlehead while still in high school, and his first collection with New Brunswick Chapbooks while a sophomore at UNB. He did his MFA in Creative Writing at UBC where he served as editor-in-chief of Prism International (1984-85). He continued his studies at UBC, earning an M.A. in English and a PhD specializing in Canadian literature; his doctoral thesis was a critical edition of the 727 letters between Desmond Pacey and Irving Layton. In recent years he's produced two collections: The First Step and Electric Affinities. More than 120 of Michael's poems have appeared in leading Canadian literary magazines, and his poems have twice been recognized in the Best Canadian Poems in English series.