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Begin with the End in Mind
Residing on the border between poetry and prose, Emma Healey masterfully navigates the tension and balance between the two forms. Her writing examines the animate qualities of seemingly inanimate things and explores personal relationships, collective and individual human experiences, as they are distilled through our encounters with such things as the CBC, chain bookstores, the contents of a kitchen, or the expanse of a whole city. Begin With the End in Mind tests the capabilities of the prose poem--the specific rhythmic, lyrical, and syntactic possibilities of the form, and the opportunities for play, renegotiating the more traditional/technical elements of lyric and line that are afforded the prose poet.
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First published August 15, 2012
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Emma Healey
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EMMA HEALEY’s first book of poems, Begin with the End in Mind, was published by ARP Books in 2012. Her poems and essays have been featured in places like the Los Angeles Review of Books, the FADER, the Hairpin, Real Life, the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Walrus, Toronto Life, and Canadian Art. She was poetry critic at the Globe and Mail (2014–2016) and is a regular contributor to the music blog Said the Gramophone. She was the recipient of the Irving Layton Award for Creative Writing in both 2010 and 2013, a National Magazine Award nominee in 2015, and a finalist for the K.M. Hunter award in 2016.
EMMA HEALEY’s first book of poems, Begin with the End in Mind, was published by ARP Books in 2012. Her poems and essays have been featured in places like the Los Angeles Review of Books, the FADER, the Hairpin, Real Life, the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Walrus, Toronto Life, and Canadian Art. She was poetry critic at the Globe and Mail (2014–2016) and is a regular contributor to the music blog Said the Gramophone. She was the recipient of the Irving Layton Award for Creative Writing in both 2010 and 2013, a National Magazine Award nominee in 2015, and a finalist for the K.M. Hunter award in 2016.
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October 30, 2014
Emma Healey on writing:
". . . you believe that when you and the work are doing the things you’re supposed to do right then if someone lifted the roof off your apartment and observed you from above you’d look not like the two of you putzing around in men’s boxers and eating cereal straight from the box like you actually are, but un-alone, like two people who have actually defeated loneliness by the sheer force of your will and are therefore fluorescent.” -from "Work Suite"
". . . you believe that when you and the work are doing the things you’re supposed to do right then if someone lifted the roof off your apartment and observed you from above you’d look not like the two of you putzing around in men’s boxers and eating cereal straight from the box like you actually are, but un-alone, like two people who have actually defeated loneliness by the sheer force of your will and are therefore fluorescent.” -from "Work Suite"
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June 30, 2019
favorite poems: Everything is Glass, Spring Line, Voting Season
some very predictable images and some surprises such as, "and the phrase I Live Alone is more slogan than statement of fact because really you live with concurrence"
some very predictable images and some surprises such as, "and the phrase I Live Alone is more slogan than statement of fact because really you live with concurrence"
June 14, 2022
read this because the author is my school's alum, now i want to write a book like this in the future.
September 9, 2016
emma healey is a very good writer & i'm pretty sure we were in the same class in grade five
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