{"product_id":"i-have-to-live-isbn-9780771050701","title":"I have to live","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call: \u003ci\u003eI have to live. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Juiced on the ecstasy of self-belief: \u003ci\u003eI have to live. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A burgeoning erotics of psychic boldness: \u003ci\u003eI have to live.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In which sensitivity is recognized as wealth: \u003ci\u003eI have to live.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Trumpeting the forensic authority of the heart: \u003ci\u003eI have to live. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is original ancient poetry. \u003cbr\u003e It fashions a universe from its mouth.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTHOU\u003c\/i\u003e by Aisha Sasha John:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"An act of deep attention to the physical self, to the positioning of bodies in the world, Aisha Sasha John's \u003ci\u003eTHOU\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey through power and society, hatred and love, anger and healing, offering an intimate, clear-eyed look at our shared humanity. Original, funny, sensuous; at once profound and unpretentious, John's lines are a pleasure and a revelation.\" -- Jury comment, Trillium Book Award for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e • \"To read this book is to experience the poem happening to you--and to want in.\" -- 49th Shelf\u003cbr\u003e • \"A book of meditative chant, sing-song patter and performance lyric, \u003ci\u003eTHOU\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poetry shaped around a pronoun, inquiring, shaking and prodding and shattering.\" -- rob mclennan\u003cbr\u003e • \"Aisha Sasha John's \u003ci\u003eTHOU\u003c\/i\u003e re-plays that archaic pronoun as a constantly present movement and rhythm of attention: the suddenness of the interpolative 'moment.' These lines of poetry 'shake . . . a little' as the 'I' narrates and choreographs a monologue of the self in motion; each page is the dance floor and John's words break through the 'I-as-you' with both the foreignicity of anticipation and the reflection of grace.\" -- Fred Wah\u003cbr\u003e • “[John’s poetry] bristles with an intelligence sharpened on the realization that feeling is a way of thinking. . . . The effect, of looseness carrying and building tropes in a way that explicates and satisfies, while maintaining an air of mystery, makes\u003ci\u003e THOU\u003c\/i\u003e a model of poetic construction.” — Michael Newton, \u003ci\u003eUrchin Movement\u003c\/i\u003eAISHA SASHA JOHN is a poet, dancer, and choreographer. Her most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eI have to live., \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her solo performance \u003ci\u003ethe aisha of is, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epremiered at the Whitney Museum in 2017, will be presented at Toronto’s 2018 Summerworks Festival. In addition to her solo work, Aisha choreographed, performed, and curated as a member of the collective WIVES from 2015–2017. Aisha's other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Shining Material\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTHOU, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for both the Trillium and Relit Book Awards. Aisha was the 2018 University of Toronto, Scarborough Writer-in-Residence. She was born in Montreal.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304305414373,"sku":"NP9780771050701","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771050701.jpg?v=1767729647","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/i-have-to-live-isbn-9780771050701","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}