Lousy Explorers

by Laisha Rosnau

In this collection, husbands and wives stumble into each other at the end of days, children find the wild edges of suburbs, new mothers try to navigate through a map-less terrain, and a relentless epidemic of bugs eats away at the forest. The collection explores new territory, both physically and emotionally--relocation, the north, new marriage and motherhood--in a way that is honest, raw and insightful.

"In two years, I went from being a single girl living in a studio downtown Vancouver to being a married mother in the suburbs of a northern town. We arrived in the north in the middle of an epidemic of pine beetles that was literally eating away the forest around us, leaving the landscape exposed and raw. I wanted to write about people doing this in their own lives--entering into new territory, stumbling and blundering, but also opening themselves up for change and transformation, for new life."
--Laisha Rosnau

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

Reviews

[Christina Rosalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I go back again and again to these poems. Leaving and arrival, growing, and depth. Rosnau captures the essence of human experience so adeptly.

[Melissa Fedd]

A-MAZ-ING

[Scott Weatherby · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the span of one book, Laisha Rosnau has become one of my favourite poets.

This book was amazing.