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Floating Life
By Moez Surani
Floating Life, Moez Surani's second collection of poetry, takes the reader on a dizzying tour of the world, stopping in Cairo, Muju, Madrid and Cape Breton. Interwoven through these evocative glimpses of places and the people that live in them are poems exploring relationships, ... Read more
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Floating Life, Moez Surani's second collection of poetry, takes the reader on a dizzying tour of the world, stopping in Cairo, Muju, Madrid and Cape Breton. Interwoven through these evocative glimpses of places and the people that live in them are poems exploring relationships, reflecting on identity and considering the passing of time.
Moez Surani
Moez Surani's writing has been published internationally, including in Harper's Magazine, the Awl, Best American Experimental Writing 2016, Best Canadian Poetry (2013 and 2014), and the Globe and Mail. He has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported research in India and East Africa, and has been an Artist-in-Residence in Burma, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Taiwan, Switzerland, as well as the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is the author of three poetry books: Reticent Bodies (2009), Floating Life (2012), and Operations (2016), which is comprised of the names of military operations and reveals a globe-spanning inventory of the contemporary rhetoric of violence. Surani lives in Toronto.
Reviews
"Surani's work has a sense of intimacy, as if he truly is 'Trying to write out this life / pushing for clarity. ' However, he is at his best when making blank observations that produce more emotion than they should. " - Winnipeg Free Press
"Reading Surani is the fastest way to culture yourself. The minimalist's combination of romantic musings and sightseeing is fresh. His travels are so far-roaming and summarized in such tight lines that he is providing a wholly intimate and pocketable globe of wonders. Even the shortest poems are conversation worthy. " - literatured. com
"Moez Surani's second collection aims for such moments of imagistic detail?but with the recognition that not all is pleasure and diversion. Rather, these sparse, moving poems are buoyed on undercurrents of loss and meditations, in which love and its physical manifestations are tenuous, ever-shifting, as vibrant yet as insubstantial as light. " - ARC Poetry Magazine
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- Dimensions 96 pages, 5.75 x 8.52 x .33 in
- Published March 1, 2011
- Publisher Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
- Category Poetry
- Keywords Canadian
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