{"title":"Karen Solie","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pigeon","title":"Pigeon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Solie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806636736554,"sku":"9780887848230","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/pigeon-6267935.jpg?v=1762480799"},{"product_id":"road-in-is-not-the-same-road-out-poems","title":"Road in Is Not the Same Road Out: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLatner Writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Trust Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray: ' . . . He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives'. . . And, yes, as we embark on the third millennium of our so-called Common Era, she is indeed the one by whom the language lives.\" --Michael Hofmann, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA sublime singer of existential bewilderment, Karen Solie is one of contemporary poetry's most direct and haunting voices. A poet of the in-between places--the purgatory of wayside motels and junkyards, the abandoned Calgary ski jump and the eternal noon of Walmart--her poems stake out startlingly new territory and are songs for our emerging world, an age of uncertainty and melting icebergs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Solie's new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Road In Is Not the Same Road Out\u003c\/i\u003e, she restlessly excavates our civilization, the moments of tough luck, casual violence, naked desire, and inchoate menace, pursuing \"Beauty and terror \/ in equal measure\" and fixing on the \"Intrigue of a boarded-up building. \/ We want to get in there and find out what's the matter with it.\" Amplifying the elegant recklessness of her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection \u003ci\u003ePigeon\u003c\/i\u003e, these poems bear an uncanny poetic intelligence and unflinching vision.","brand":"Karen Solie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806636802090,"sku":"9780374536169","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/road-in-is-not-the-same-road-out-poems-4915776.jpg?v=1762480799"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/karen-solie.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}