Light Falls Through You: Poems

by Anne Simpson

Sensuously attentive to the world, intensely imagined, and musically driven, Light Falls Through You is a book that remembers the victims - of war, of atrocity, of casual violence - and calls upon language to render homage. Whether she is bringing poetry elegiacally to the service of an individual, to the masses of Rwandan dead or the casualties of the Montreal massacre, Anne Simpson writes with meditative insight balanced by imaginative reach and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771080778
• ISBN13: 9780771080777
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Well worth reading

Anne Simpson is a wonderful poet! She has a knack for describing situations in a way which sheds new light upon them. She is insightful, thoughtful, and very creative. I especially loved the punctuation poems series, which I cannot begin to describe here. Read it for yourself and I think you'll agree with me that Ms. Simpson is a very gifted writer.