Letter from Brooklyn - Softcover

Scheier, Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770411348 ISBN 13: 9781770411340

Publisher: ECW Press, 2013

Synopsis

The second collection from a Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry winner In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional voice digs deep into a radical Jewish heritage rooted in New York City. Everything is at once political and poetic, inseparable from intimate experience and personal heartbreak. Scheier moves from the inner worlds of grief and love to form a poetic dialectic between the familial and the historical. Whether eating in a knish restaurant on the Lower East Side or falling in and then out of love with the Brooklyn Bridge, being startled while biking down a prairie road or searching for a European village wiped clear off the map, with depth and originality Scheier confronts the question of where home is and what it means amid private and public loss.

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About the Author

Jacob Scheier is a poet and journalist. His debut collection, "More to Keep Us Warm," won the 2008 Governor General's Award for English language poetry. His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines across North America, including "Descant," "Geist," and" Rattle," and have aired on CBC radio. He lives in Toronto.

Review

"A burgeoning voice in Canadian poetry [that] . . . will ignite and incite new poets."  —Matrix

"It is honest about love and loss in ways that are wise." —Quill & Quire (April 2013)

About this edition

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1770411348
• ISBN 13: 9781770411340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96