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Unfamiliar Weather

by (author) Chris Hutchinson

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920486825
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

If you’ve ever wanted "to read with the page turned/upside-down, craving a different perspective," you’ll want to enter Unfamiliar Weather, a world of beauty and menace, where "electricity floats just above the surface/of events, phosphorescent/as the ghosts of jellyfish." Beneath the glittering glaciers, you can hear the sound of boulders shifting "like knuckles cracking before a fight," and witness a wind storm that threatens to turn loose the "wilderness waiting in everything," revealing the bare terrain of human isolation. In this turbulent, unpredictable climate, Chris Hutchinson’s deft, intelligent poems explore our place in the world, our relationships to nature, to each other, to language, and to art.

About the author

Chris Hutchinson is the author of Unfamiliar Weather (Muses' Company, 2005) and Other People's Lives (Brick Books, 2009). His work has been translated into Chinese and has appeared in numerous Canadian and US literary journals and anthologies. Born in Montreal and raised on Vancouver Island, he has pursued various livelihoods in Vancouver, Dawson City, Edmonton, Nelson, Kelowna, Phoenix and Brooklyn, cooking in restaurants or occasionally teaching creative writing at high schools, colleges and universities. He hasn't been home in years.

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