Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed

By (author): Grant Loveys

A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction

Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones) beneath the appearance (or skin) of a situation.

This poetry is at once memento mori — a reminder and celebration of our mortality — and a lyrical exploration of the spirituality of the mundane, the possibility for revelation found in the commonplace.

The universe’s heart is a ruined house.
Written on the door is this:
you cannot do a thing that has not already been done.

— from “On the Occasion of a Book Burning”

AUTHOR

Grant Loveys

Grant Loveys’s Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed was The Globe and Mail Readers’ Pick for the best poetry collection of 2012. He lives in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Reviews

“Buying the collection leads to more loves.” — Chronicle Herald


“Lovely and strange, promising plenty of poems that are ‘half drunk on moonlight / like froth from a dish of freezing milk’ — while staying quiet and intimate, drawing the reader in with a conversational tone and the promise of future intimacy.” — The American Reader


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A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction

Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones) beneath the appearance (or skin) of a situation.

This poetry is at once memento mori — a reminder and celebration of our mortality — and a lyrical exploration of the spirituality of the mundane, the possibility for revelation found in the commonplace.

The universe’s heart is a ruined house.
Written on the door is this:
you cannot do a thing that has not already been done.

— from “On the Occasion of a Book Burning”

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Details

Dimensions:

68 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in *
0.2984lb

Published:

September 26, 2012

City of Publication:

Toronto

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

ECW Press

ISBN:

9781770411074

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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