Hagiography

by Jen Currin

Her acclaimed debut collection, "The Sleep of Four Cities," announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin s new collection, "Hagiography," see her trademark cunning wordplay and entirely contemporary take on the surrealist image moving into new and more personal territory. In a style that regularly pushes life s barely hidden strangeness into the light, Currin s poems present thought as a bright, emotionally complex event, a place where mind and sense and the natural world they move through become indistinguishable elements in a mysterious, familiar, vexing, fascinating, and continuous human drama. There are no saints in this hagiography only ghosts, sisters, spiders, birds This is an anti-biography. It starts with death and ends with birth. In between: life after life."

Genres: Poetry, Canada

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 14, 2004

Reviews

[Emmett Racecar · Rating 5 out of 5]

My friend Jen Currin's book. Amazing.

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

Either I really don't "get" poetry, or this book sucked. Probably both.

[Lindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

baffling... in the way of dream language... but I liked the imagery