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Book SynopsisIn her startling debut, Anna Knowles lays bare the suburban violence and wrenching pain that bely clean white picket fences and houses neatly aligned down neighbourhood streets. Her poetry explores how fear, pain, and anguish can unexpectedly take hold and settle into the smallest spaces within us.
Trade ReviewA poetry of narrative tension, lyrical beauty, and incredible, breath-stealing imagination. These poems show place as a reliquary of trauma but they also show how joy and love can rise in even the most broken places. Grief struck and haunted, these are points of hope and light in a way only poems can be." - Judy Jordan, author of
Carolina Ghost Woods"In her astonishing debut collection, Anna Leigh Knowles probes the anguish of a childhood and young adulthood. These poems shimmer with dynamic lyricism, deft storytelling, and unwavering candor. Knowles spins the beautiful, crackling music of a world that simultaneously dazzles and wounds." - Brian Barker, author of
Vanishing Acts
