Hallelujah Time

By (author): Virginia Konchan

Hallelujah Time, Virgina Konchan‘s third full-length poetry collection–and the first to appear in Canada–delivers up poetry that is unlike anything being written today. Specializing in fast-moving monologues that track the vagaries and divagations of a mind in action, Konchan cuts our most hallowed cultural institutions and constructions down to size with surprising turns of language both theatrical and sincere. Hallelujah Time embraces a dazzling mix of idioms, registers, and tones in poems that compress everything they know into aphoristic, hard-boiled insights as arresting as they are witty. “My human desire,” Konchan writes, “is simple: / to live on the perpetual cusp / of extremity.” Hallelujah Time is a revelation.

AUTHOR

Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan is the author of two poetry collections, Any God Will Do and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 and 2018), as well as a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her poems and essays have appeared widely throughout the U.S. and Canada, including in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Believer, and Boston Review. She lives in Halifax.


Reviews

“Anchored in a tone that balances personal perspective andintellectual relativity, Konchan’s poems are able to twist fromfrivolity to striking wisdom, turn from comedic imagery to aphorismson life and death, without sacrificing their emotional core.” – Montreal Review of Books


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Hallelujah Time, Virgina Konchan‘s third full-length poetry collection–and the first to appear in Canada–delivers up poetry that is unlike anything being written today. Specializing in fast-moving monologues that track the vagaries and divagations of a mind in action, Konchan cuts our most hallowed cultural institutions and constructions down to size with surprising turns of language both theatrical and sincere. Hallelujah Time embraces a dazzling mix of idioms, registers, and tones in poems that compress everything they know into aphoristic, hard-boiled insights as arresting as they are witty. “My human desire,” Konchan writes, “is simple: / to live on the perpetual cusp / of extremity.” Hallelujah Time is a revelation.

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Dimensions:

75 Pages
7.5in * 5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

September 15, 2021

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Vehicule Press

ISBN:

9781550655827

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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