Description
This is the inaugural volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series, which honours Canada’s foremost Mennonite poets. This collection offers a generous selection of some of the best work, past and present, of Manitoba’s Sarah Klassen, who has published eight books of poetry in a long and distinguished career. The book includes a brand-new afterword by the poet and a detailed critical introduction by the editor, Nathan Dueck. This volume presents new and uncollected poems as well as the best of the work from previously published books. The poems are thematically arranged and chosen in consultation with the poet.
About the authors
Born in Manitoba’s Interlake, Sarah Klassen learned at an early age to appreciate both birdsong and nature’s silence. An accomplished poet and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Journey to Yalta), the High Plains Award for Fiction (A Feast of Longing), the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry (A Curious Beatitude), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry. Her work has been nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. The Witternbergs is her first novel. Klassen lives in Winnipeg.
Nathan Russel Dueck lost a staring contest with his hometown of Winkler, MB, after eighteen years. He blinked and had to move away. He now lives in Cranbrook, BC, where he teaches English and Creative Writing at the College of the Rockies. He is the author of king's(mère) (Turnstone Press), he'll (Pedlar Press), and A Very Special Episode (Buckrider Books). In (1979- ), his debut memoir, Nathan says some things about himself that are (maybe) better left unsaid.
