More to Keep Us Warm

by Jacob Scheier

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The death of a young man's mother instigates this collection of remarkable poems that seeks to map the limitations and breaking points of the human heart. The question of how and why humans fall in and out of love becomes a haunting refrain as the intrica

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Jacob Scheier is a poet and journalist from Toronto. He has also lived in Istanbul, New York City, and Brandon, Manitoba. His debut collection, More to Keep Us Warm, won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2008. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines across North America, including Descant, Geist, and Rattle, and show more have been aired on CBC Radio. He is the co-winner of a 2009 New York Community Media Alliance Award for Best Feature and is a regular contributor to Toronto's NOW Magazine. show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
DDC/MDS
811.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry2000-
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PR9251 .S345Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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