Description:
Outside, America criss-crosses the Canadian-American border to understand dilemmas that occur across a variety of scales, from global spheres to the most intimate domestic spaces. Sarah de Leeuw digs through grief, loss, aging, technological frustration, environmental degradation, nationalism and confusion to grasp the state of the world. These poems are tethered to everything from climate change and scientific discovery to the death of parents, resource extraction, divorce and career changes, touching down on whale extinctions, lounges in international airports and debris slides, on suiciding pilots and sinkholes, astronauts, grocery store magazines, earthquakes and even sinking ferries and pop stars.
Brief description:
Sarah de Leeuw is an award-winning Canadian writer and researcher whose books include Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 (NeWest Press, 2004), Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia (Creekstone Press, 2011), Geographies of a Lover (NeWest Press, 2012), Skeena (Caitlin Press, 2015) and Where it Hurts (NeWest Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize. She lives in Prince George, BC.
Review Quotes:
"There is great tenderness in these poems, yet the emotion never feels overwrought, counterbalanced as it is by a high degree of craft, formal experimentation, and keen attention to a series of manufactured and natural curiosities woven uneasily together into a common life." -Jenny Kerber, Canadian Literature, July 12, 2019
--Jenny Kerber "Canadian Literature "