The much-anticipated second collection from the author of The Quiet.

Anne-Marie Turza’s Fugue With Bedbug is part musical reference, part portraiture, a series of uncanny poems attending to time and mortality, an eccentric essay, and a musical score. Using the fugue form as a quiet compositional strategy, Turza argues that the mission: “in afterthought, was Jell-O, a salad of delicate intent and shimmy …”

Anne-Marie Turza's first book of poems, The Quiet, published in 2014, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and was named the year's most remarkable Canadian debut by the Globe and Mail. She was also a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry. Her poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, the Malahat Review, Prism, the Globe and Mail, and elsewhere. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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• Long-listed, SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors

Anne-Marie Turza’s Fugue with Bedbug is a puzzle worth encountering. Nonhuman subjects of the poems perform absurd delights, whimsical images drive each stanza, and footnotes contain fact and riddle alike. … Those who enjoy play with language and poetics will greatly appreciate Turza’s Fugue.

The Miramichi Reader

Surreal at its core, [Fugue with Bedbug] uses its musicality to ease its reader into the peculiar and to locate similar strangeness in our world. The poems … are truly refreshing.

Quill and Quire