My shoes are killing me : poems
by Robyn Sarah
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Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on the "hazardous . . . treasurehouse" that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada's most well-regarded poets. Robyn Sarah is the author show more of nine previous collections. Ten of her poems have appeared on The Writer's Almanac, and her work has been anthologized in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2005), and The Bedford Introduction to Literature (2001). show lessTags
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
- DDC/MDS
- 819.154 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literatures in English not requiring local emphasis English literature from Canada Canadian speeches 1864–1900
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- PR9199.3 .S23 .M9 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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