The Description of the World

by Skibsrud, Johanna

• ISBN13: 9781928088219
• ISBN10: 192808821X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-11-01
• Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd

Summary

Winner:
2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry
2018 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry

Finalist:
2017 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

A new poetry collection from the Giller Prize–winning author of The Sentimentalists and Quartet for the End of Time.

 

In The Description of the World Johanna Skibsrud brings us to the edges of dreams – and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. This is a collection about possibility. The possibility of language and naming, of dropping – or not dropping – an atomic bomb, of giving birth, of love.

Author Biography

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two previous collections of poetry, I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being and Late Nights With Wild Cowboys; two novels, Quartet for the End of Time and the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel The Sentimentalists; and the short fiction collection This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Skibsrud and her family divide their time between Tucson and Cape Breton.