{"product_id":"wellwater-karen-solie","title":"Wellwater (Karen Solie)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken' - Michael Hofmann, \u003ci\u003eLRB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Half-expertise and half-magic . . . \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrifying book - and a masterly one. Solie is as good as poetry gets' - Declan Ryan, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, \u003ci\u003eWellwater \u003c\/i\u003econducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. Thresholds abound, 'doors between dimensions' where past selves or lost loved ones speak to us again: 'death is not Saskatchewan' shrugs one encountered soul, 'we don't all know each other in this place'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSolie excels as a laureate of the transitory, of 'baffling flats . . . tiny museums of illegalities', motel rooms exuding a 'low hum of menace'. Her roving, syntactically elegant poems will often resolve in disarming directness, a precise admission of the emotional stakes. Karen Solie is increasingly recognised as one of the essential voices in world poetry. \u003ci\u003eWellwater\u003c\/i\u003e will delight those already in the know, while new readers of her work will be astonished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful, philosophical, intelligent . . . [Solie is] adept at pulling great wisdom from the ordinary' - Griffin Prize judges Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie and Carl Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sometimes didactic and anecdotal, always matter-of-fact, Solie is a philosophical conversationalist . . . This is a well-timed book addressing our moment of climatic turbulence' - Kit Fan, \u003ci\u003eObsever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wry and buoyant playfulness walks a tightrope with frank appraisal . . . The result is a work of political profundity and linguistic dexterity that constantly surprises.' - Susannah Dickey, PEN Heaney Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eISDAL\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTennis Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eKaren Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. She is the author of six collections of poetry - \u003ci\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePigeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Caiplie Caves\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWellwater \u003c\/i\u003e- which have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Living Option: Selected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in the UK in 2013. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Karen Solie teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 112 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63438004781405,"sku":"K098125933","price":13.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/223744-9812593300001A.jpg?v=1771134353","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/wellwater-karen-solie","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}