In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns' Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty, we revisit Enns' rural Mennonite childhood, replete with the sensuousness of "diesel fuel" and "hot peaches." Enns also explores the Mennonite exodus from Russia, tracking its faint but unmistakable reverberations in the daily lives of its survivors and revealing the redemptive character of that dailiness. Reading an Enns poem feels effortless: her rhythms and phrasing are so minutely calibrated that the poem unfolds as if of its own accord: It was the ashtray on the arm of the chair, books lining the stairs, tapping rain, the smell of soup in the kitchen and black bread and nothing more. What exists, existed there. The spirit floundering and being saved again and again in the ordinary hours. The fountain in the garden like a simple well, the poplars, past the hedge, the sommerhaus with its green roof. from "William Street Elegies"
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In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns' Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty, we revisit Enns' rural Mennonite childhood, replete with the sensuousness of "diesel fuel" and "hot peaches." Enns also explores the Mennonite exodus from Russia, tracking its faint but unmistakable reverberations in the daily lives of its survivors and revealing the redemptive character of that dailiness. Reading an Enns poem feels effortless: her rhythms and phrasing are so minutely calibrated that the poem unfolds as if of its own accord: It was the ashtray on the arm of the chair, books lining the stairs, tapping rain, the smell of soup in the kitchen and black bread and nothing more. What exists, existed there. The spirit floundering and being saved again and again in the ordinary hours. The fountain in the garden like a simple well, the poplars, past the hedge, the sommerhaus with its green roof. from "William Street Elegies"
Imprint | Brick Books |
Country of origin | Canada |
Release date | March 2014 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | May 2014 |
Authors | Karen Enns |
Dimensions | 222 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 88 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-926829-90-6 |
Barcode | 9781926829906 |
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LSN | 1-926829-90-5 |