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Poetry Canadian

This is the Emergency Present

by (author) Vincent Pagé

Publisher
Coach House Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2019
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552453995
    Publish Date
    Sep 2019
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770566200
    Publish Date
    Sep 2019
    List Price
    $12.95

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Poems about modern romance by a modern romantic Moving through a human landscape that exists both in the past and present, the speaker/speakers in This is the Emergency Present attempt to unearth an understanding about love, romanticism, and connection. Using chemistry and physics, the early works of Pablo Neruda, and the abstract broken language around him, Vincent Pagé attempts to define something tangible about presence and absence. By asking "at what point in a transition/ does one thing become the other thing?" he challenges us to consider what it means to be here, and at what point are we finally there?

About the author

Vincent Pagé has had work published in Prism, Geist, The Malahat Review, Metatron, Event, The Puritan, and Vallum, among other journals. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2015. He lives in Toronto.

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