All We Saw

From the internationally celebrated author of Fugitive Pieces and the Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted collection Correspondences—and Toronto's Poet Laureate—comes a profoundly moving new collection of poetry of love and memory.

In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns to poetry with strikingly original lyrics to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." In this passionate, piercing short collection, dedicated to the late Mark Strand, Michaels explores "love's dare / love's repair / a single stitch." In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers—so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other—she embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. The complete and… Keep Reading