num_pages: 96
description: Recalling Hopkins or Dickinson in their urgency, these poems seduce the reader into experiencing life's darkest moments while revealing unexpected shafts of light. In a voice that is at once confident, elegant, and doubtful, the author scans the world as if through the wrong end of a telescope, employing recurrent images and exploring obsessions to produce a remarkably exact account of remote, intimate dealings. "I will have to explain myself to myself," she writes, but in doing so communicates a great deal about all of us.
language: English
title: Past Imperfect: Poems
titlecomplete: Past Imperfect: Poems
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 59
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
publisher: House of Anansi Press