God and Other Mortals

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By (author): Helen Humphreys

Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths.

AUTHOR

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys is the award-winning author of four books of poetry, seven novels, and two works of creative non-fiction, including the bestselling The Frozen Thames. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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Humphreys’ use of language is very skillful. Some poems cover us in an avalanche of paradoxes that illumine the underlying mystery. Sometimes we are ambushed by sudden juxtapositions of words and phrases. Always we are following a map we must decode the buried treasure.
– Canadian Book Review Annual

Words are signals, flares sent up in desperation, a cryptic language of longing.
– Toronto Star