Essential Tremor by Nickel, Barbara

Essential Tremor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773860602)

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Essential Tremor by Nickel, Barbara

Essential Tremor

$13.00
Essential Tremor by Nickel, Barbara

Essential Tremor

$13.00
Format: Paperback
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Taking the name of a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary shaking, Essential Tremor undertakes an exploration of the body that holds disruption at its heart. The captivating and timely poems in Essential Tremor attend to many bodies--the body of the world, changing, unreachable, at times momentarily illumined; the human body, loved, ill, mourning, passing or passed from this world; and the divine body, questioned, encountered and not, sought by people from the margins in the body of a biblical palimpsest. In her third collection, award-winning poet Barbara Nickel blends sonnets in sequences and scattered stand-alones with more formal innovations and extensions--erasures of the notes accompanying da Vinci's anatomical drawings, lines found from Beethoven's autopsy, and the musings of poet isolating in the midst of a twenty-first-century pandemic. Nickel asks her readers to consider the many facets of the body, how it finds the words, lines and poems that together form an essential life, a gift among our deepest wounds and terrors.

Author: Barbara Nickel
ISBN-10: 1773860607
ISBN-13: 9781773860602
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
By Barbara Nickel
By Barbara Nickel
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Barbara Nickel is an award-winning writer and editor. Essential Tremor is Nickel's third collection of poetry. Her first, The Gladys Elegies (Coteau Books, 1997), won the Pat Lowther Award. and her second, Domain (House of Anansi, 2007), was a Quill & Quire Best Book. Her work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The Walrus, Poetry Ireland Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review. She was the editor of Ian Hampton's non-fiction memoir, Jan in 35 Pieces, which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize and the BC Book Prize in 2019. Barbara is also an author of books for young people, which have been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and won the BC Book Prize. Barbara lives and writes in Yarrow, BC.

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