Emanations

by Prathna Lor

In Prathna Lor’s first full-length collection we are introduced to a unique voice in Canadian poetry. Moving fluidly between prose poems and more fractured, open verse, Lor meditates on voice, on disaster and on identity, pushing always against commodification, against a consumable narrative.

Genres: Poetry, Canada

72 pages, Paperback

Published April 26, 2022

Reviews

[feux d'artifice · Rating 4 out of 5]

The poems in this collection have such a fascinating pace, I found myself reading them aloud and turning the words in my mind.

As usual with collections I didn't like all of them but the ones I liked I really liked. Preferred the poems from the first 2/3rds of the book than the last third.

[Elliot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lyrical and surreal this reads like stumbling through a dream. Beautiful, but the lack of grounding and the authorial distance ultimately made it not quite to my taste.

[Nathaniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This poetry is unlike anything I’ve read before…and I loved it so dearly

[Ally]

I thought I could write woman, and someone had already
said no. But the writing of the women is.
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Dangerous thinking in a time of porousness.
Dangerous thinking in a time of possession.
Dangerous thinking in a time of prostration.
Dangerous thinking in a time of postulation.
Dangerous thinking in a time of prancing.
Dangerous thinking in a time of proclivity.
Dangerous thinking in a time of pretension.
Dangerous thinking in a time of panacea.
Dangerous thinking in a time of protrusions.
Dangerous thinking in a time of phylogenesis.
Dangerous thinking in a time of pests.
Dangerous thinking in a time of pirouettes.
Dangerous thinking in a time of panache.
Dangerous thinking in a time of the preterite.