This is one of my favorite collections of poetry so farpoetry pulled from the heart; poetry of life and love; a rebirth of spirit, of all the magic in life we thought we had lost along the way.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: West Virginia In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out.
This is one of my favorite collections of poetry so farpoetry pulled from the heart; poetry of life and love; a rebirth of spirit, of all the magic in life we thought we had lost along the way.
Winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix litteraire des enseignant.
MORE STUFF contains "e;Virginia City,"e; a reminiscence of the author's three-month stay in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1976; eight poems; and "e;That Was New York,"e; an essay based on a trip to New York City in 1983.
A book worth a thousand thoughts wanting to be explored, inner circles of the human mind in a journey through the pages is revealing, its reflection outshines all.
The book is mostly about my past experiences, what is going on in the present, and what it is I am hoping and looking forward to in either the near future or the far future.
This particular group of poems has taken me over three years to write; that is if all things being even remotely particular, then what is time- but a precise manifestation of a concise inspiration.
I cried todaySo my smile can be pureThe innocent liquidCaressing my problems Taking them Relieving me of my sorrowsTurning them to joyI lay cradled At this hand of life