{"product_id":"strange-attractor-isbn-9780771007125","title":"Strange Attractor","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning new work from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLoop\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of us are many selves within our lifetimes--one that is thrust upon us at birth, shaped during youth, and reconstructed throughout our lives. Who is this self? Who is this self in relation to others? In the coming-to-be of childhood or in the midst of illness, we face an unknown self within the one that is known. Even after death, we appear as fluid as water in the memories of those who knew us best. \u003ci\u003eStrange Attractor \u003c\/i\u003ereveals our multiple, shifting selves with power and tenderness, as if Simpson were showing us how to shed our skins.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Anne Simpson and \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With the experimentalism of Anne Carson and the imagism of Anne Michaels, Anne Simpson explores the globe of the heart.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Halifax Chronicle-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anne Simpson’s voice is instantly recognizable…. [She writes] poems of extraordinary range, intelligence, and empathy.”\u003cb\u003e—Jury citation, Pat Lowther Memorial Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Simpson turns our attention to the sharp edges of life, and she does it with language that juxtaposes beauty with death, creating internal tension in the poems. Simpson looks at death and loss with an unsentimental eye.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eANNE SIMPSON is the author of four previous books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eLight Falls Through You\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Pat Lowther Poetry Award; \u003ci\u003eLoop\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; \u003ci\u003eQuick\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eIs\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Beach\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalling\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Her book of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Marram Grass: Poetry \u0026amp; Otherness\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2009. Simpson lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Heraclitus \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you step into this stream now \u003cbr\u003e and return an hour later, everything \u003cbr\u003e will be different. Step into this tea-\u003cbr\u003e steeped water, with a few strands \u003cbr\u003e of grass turned September Blonde. \u003cbr\u003e Between the person you are \u003cbr\u003e to the person you will be after \u003cbr\u003e you step out of this stream, \u003cbr\u003e after you’ve wiped your eyes, \u003cbr\u003e after you’ve had one child, then two, \u003cbr\u003e then maybe three, or none at all, \u003cbr\u003e you’ll look up and find yourself \u003cbr\u003e studying the grand theories \u003cbr\u003e of clouds, one construed as \u003cbr\u003e a woman with her arms outstretched, \u003cbr\u003e another as a burning house. If you \u003cbr\u003e step into this stream, the one \u003cbr\u003e outside the library, not very deep, \u003cbr\u003e with a shopping cart rusting \u003cbr\u003e on its side, you’ll feel it around \u003cbr\u003e your ankles. Step into the stream \u003cbr\u003e when you’re fifteen, lose one \u003cbr\u003e of your running shoes (a red \u003cbr\u003e one), and climb up the bank, damp, \u003cbr\u003e shivering, and you’ll be sixty-three. \u003cbr\u003e Go back down to the stream \u003cbr\u003e to get the shoe and you’ll be \u003cbr\u003e thirty-seven. If you step into this \u003cbr\u003e stream now. If you step into \u003cbr\u003e this stream if you step \u003cbr\u003e if you return if you step. If you \u003cbr\u003e return an hour later you can wrap \u003cbr\u003e dusk around your shoulders. You \u003cbr\u003e might hear someone tinkering\u003cbr\u003e with piano keys, trying to plink \u003cbr\u003e a tune. Let yourself be stream, let \u003cbr\u003e yourself be where it comes from and \u003cbr\u003e where it’s going, let yourself be \u003cbr\u003e nothing but a smear of traffic lights, \u003cbr\u003e glossed ruby, glossed green, on the surface.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303666340069,"sku":"NP9780771007125","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771007125.jpg?v=1767737395","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/strange-attractor-isbn-9780771007125","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}