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A former Poet Laureate of Canada and finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize returns with a wide-ranging new collection of poems.CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020 In John Steffler's luminous collection, And Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms of wilderness that burst into our daily lives, inspiring us to see ourselves and the world anew. Exuberant, powerful, even prescient, the poems confront the unknown and unexpected around and within us and call up our impulse to resist certainty and finality. The flimsiest shelter might seem best; a trail guide's house is revealed as a forest beyond names. What is outside might be most desired; a suit of clothes gazing into a mirror longs to become an iguana. In the title poem, a road-weary traveller comes in sight of the longed-for home—yet at the last minute turns away. Restless in their own language, the poems muster the impact of direct sensory experience and remind us what it means to live...
- Author
- John Steffler
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (587 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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