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A Walker in the City

by Méira Cook
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Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for PoetryA fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook's walker, a young woman, is a character being written by an "old city poet," who is in turn being written by another poet, for whom the young woman, "Ms. Em Cook," has been an amanuensis. Always witty and often hilarious, feather-light in touch, the book is an entertaining exploration of serious issues: youth and age; life, death and rebirth; the (dis)connection of language and reality; tradition and the now. It is an assemblage of seven nesting sections, each of them a sort of chapbook speaking to each of the others and rounding out a long poem of great freshness. A Walker in the City is one of a kind, one of the most original books Brick has ever published.

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Publisher: Brick Books

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  • ISBN: 9781771310994
  • File size: 887 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781771310994
  • File size: 887 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2011

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Fiction Poetry

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English

Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for PoetryA fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook's walker, a young woman, is a character being written by an "old city poet," who is in turn being written by another poet, for whom the young woman, "Ms. Em Cook," has been an amanuensis. Always witty and often hilarious, feather-light in touch, the book is an entertaining exploration of serious issues: youth and age; life, death and rebirth; the (dis)connection of language and reality; tradition and the now. It is an assemblage of seven nesting sections, each of them a sort of chapbook speaking to each of the others and rounding out a long poem of great freshness. A Walker in the City is one of a kind, one of the most original books Brick has ever published.

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Fiction Poetry
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