num_pages: 136
description: 
  In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of years and the loss and death they have brought.

language: English
title: The Alchemy of Happiness
titlecomplete: The Alchemy of Happiness
ratings_count: 5
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
publisher: Dundurn