“Many of Lisa Shatzky's 45 poems in this collection are written in the second person. They address a ?you? who might be the reader but who sometimes seems to be the poet talking about herself. This commingling joins reader and poet in a heightened shared experience. In other poems, we meet Shatzky in her first-person self, whom she knows to be two people, one calm, the other volcanic. This complex writer, in her seemingly simple language, shows us how to be aware of magic on a city street, how to struggle against conformity, how to maintain the desire to dance towards the deadline, and how to ring the bells as you go.? -Audrey Grescoe, co-editor of The Book of Love Letters; co-author of Fragments of Paradise; author of Giants: The Colossal Trees of Pacific North America

Lisa Shatzky's poetry has been published in The Vancouver Review,Room Magazine,Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Canadian Literature, Canadian Woman's Studies, The Prairie Journal, Jones Ave.,The New Quarterly, Monday's Poem, and six chapbooks by Leaf Press (edited by Patrick Lane) along with anthologies across Canada.� Shatzky has also had prose published in a new book called "Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast" published by The Key Publishing Group in September 2012. When not writing she works as a psychotherapist on Bowen Island. B.C. where she lives with her three teenage children, an assortment of Ragdoll cats, and her partner Don on a sailboat called "Pelican.

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