Grace and Poison

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By (author): Karen Connelly

The Small Words in My Body and The Disorder of Love in a single volume that includes a new essay from Connelly about her earlier poetry and her travels since those days. Award-winning poet Karen Connelly’s work is a travelogue of her journeys through this life. Written while she was a teen, The Small Words in My Body won the Pat Lowther Award for poetry, a precursor to Connelly’s 1993 Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. The Disorder of Love may be Connelly’s most personal work to date.

AUTHOR

Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly is the author of nine books of award-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has received the Orange Broadband New Writers Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and has been shortlisted for BC National Award for Nonfiction. Her work has been published and translated in North America, Britain and Asia. She lives in Toronto, ON.