Your cart is currently empty!
Important Shipping Notice: Due to the ongoing Canada Post strike, delivery times may be longer than usual. Where possible, we’ll use alternative shipping methods to help get your order to you sooner. We appreciate your patience and understanding as your order makes its way to you.
A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more
Other Poems
“I have to wonder why poets are always expected to write exactly what they wrote the last time they wrote a poem. So I wrote the poems a little differently this time. That’s okay too.”- MillAr, interview published in The Danforth ReviewJay MillAr’s poetry resists classification. This book, being a collection of Other Poems, is an assemblage of seemingly disparate materials–the poems are of various lengths, subjects and origins and were composed over the past ten years of this prolific author’s life. Reading this book is likened to finding a box of photographs in a thrift store; here lies a miscellany of meaning that offers an intimate view of MillAr’s “direct manner of spoken mind.”
Praise for MillAr’s previous work:
“MillAr writes in a taut shorthand that combines the observational precision of a naturalist with a postmodernist
interest in how language shapes our perceptions… But [he]
doesn’t abandon traditional lyricism altogether; indeed, he has a knack for ear-pleasing, evocative phrasing. In False Maps for Other Creatures, MillAr doesn’t offer infallible paths of meaning through his meditations on place. But he does invite readers to make their own connections and discoveries.”
―Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star
“The poems in this book are undeniably fruitious and wild. They embody language as a growing, sensate thing. Each line quivers like an open ended nerve…”
―Kemeny Babineau, The Danforth Review
Thought provoking and entertaining, Other Poems is a fine assortment, highly recommended.―The Midwest Book Review
“MillAr writes in a taut shorthand that combines the observational precision of a naturalist with a postmodernist
interest in how language shapes our perceptions… But [he]
doesn’t abandon traditional lyricism altogether; indeed, he has a knack for ear-pleasing, evocative phrasing. In False Maps for Other Creatures, MillAr doesn’t offer infallible paths of meaning through his meditations on place. But he does invite readers to make their own connections and discoveries.”
―Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star
“The poems in this book are undeniably fruitious and wild. They embody language as a growing, sensate thing. Each line quivers like an open ended nerve…”
―Kemeny Babineau, The Danforth Review
Thought provoking and entertaining, Other Poems is a fine assortment, highly recommended.―The Midwest Book Review
There are no awards found for this book.
You must be logged in to submit a review.
Details
Dimensions:
96 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.25in
Published:
March 01, 2010
Publisher:
ISBN:
9780889712423
Featured In:
Language:
eng
Share
No author posts found.
