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The Missing Field
Guernica Editions, Fall 2018
80 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781771832779
ISBN10: 1771832770
English
$20.00 Canada, $20.00 US
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Jennifer Zilm's second poetry collection, The Missing Field, concerns themes of translation, preservation and the engagement with the transitory documents of everyday life--whether a snapshot of a Vancouver bus, postcards from the Middle East, lecture notes on Euripides, a van Gogh museum catalogue or marginalia in a water-damaged collection of Rilke poems. The missing field is an imaginative space where all the documents lost to time can be re-imagined.
Hey you!--this postcard, like every other, is just fragment / of a larger journey. Stepping over the threshold / of the plane, I entered this hot room / of a country. Seen entire the desert seems soft / but the sand is sharp to touch, like turning / hard snow with bare hands when I was a small girl. -- From "Postcard: a desert sestina"
For a first book, Waiting Room demonstrates Jennifer Zilm’s already strong talent & insight. She joins a large number of fine young poets emerging in 21st century Canada … the book achieves a bleak yet open grandeur.
Douglas Balfour, Electric Ruckus
Waiting Room: Zilm encourages readers to engage a bit more than normal in the activity of reading. She dares readers to find beauty in the leftover and the unfinished, in the margins.
Geoffrey Nilson, CV2
Waiting Room is compelling, gripping, and familiar. It is a valuable contribution to the documentary tradition in Canadian poetry.
Ryan Cox, Canadian Literature
Awards
- League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award (shortlisted)
Reviews
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Poetry Reviews by Rose Morris
The Malahat Review - April 1, 2019
Books by Jennifer Zilm
