num_pages: 195
description: Prior to her stunning first novel Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels had already won awards and critical acclaim for two books of poetry: The Weight of Oranges (1986) which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas and Miner's Pond (1991) which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was short-listed for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. Although they were published separately these two books along with Skin Divers a collection of Michaels's newest work were written as companion volumes.Poems brings all three books together for the first time creating for American readers a wonderful introduction to Anne Michaels's poetry. Meditative and insightful powerful and heart-moving these are poems that as Michael Ondaatje has written go way beyond games or fashion or politics . . . They represent the human being entire.
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title: Poems: The Weight of Oranges, Miner's Pond, Skin Divers
publisher: Alfred A Knopf