Not in Vain You've Sent Me Light

by Cora Siré

This collection begins with a provocative, sometimes humorous exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs, and evolves into a high-voltage portrait gallery depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. As the settings shift between the poet’s homage to her home city of Montréal to a near-drowning on a lake by a maximum security prison in New York State or calamities in the Andes of northern Argentina, Cora Siré draws on a multi-dimensional palette to deepen her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art.

90 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2021

About the author

Cora Siré lives in Montréal where she writes fiction, poetry and essays.

Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

She is the author of two novels, Behold Things Beautiful and The Other Oscar, as well as two poetry collections, Signs of Subversive Innocents and Not in Vain You've Sent Me Light. She has been a finalist for various prizes.

She often writes of elsewheres, drawing on her encounters in faraway places, especially Latin America, and her family's history of displacement.

Reviews

[H Nigel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read and enjoyed these poems. They capture the intricacies of a marital relationship in different settings.