And Yet
Poems
A former Poet Laureate of Canada and finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize returns with a wide-ranging new collection of poems.
CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020
In John Steffler's luminous collection, And Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms of wilderness that burst into our daily lives, inspiring us to see ourselves and the world anew. Exuberant, powerful, even prescient, the poems confront the unknown and unexpected around and within us and call up our impulse to resist certainty and finality. The flimsiest shelter might seem best; a trail guide's house is revealed as a forest beyond names. What is outside might be most desired; a suit of clothes gazing into a mirror longs to become an iguana. In the title…
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September 1, 2020
JOHN STEFFLER is the author of six books of poetry, including Lookout, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, The Grey Islands and That Night We Were Ravenous. His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. From 2006 to 2008 he was Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada.
And Yet
John Steffler
The Afterlife of George Cartwright
John Steffler, Afterword by Renée Hulan
Lookout
John Steffler