Riven: Poems

by Catherine Owen and Catherine Owen

Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry

In 2010, Catherine Owen's 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial shock, the river became her focus: a natural, damaged space that both intensifies emotion and symbolizes healing. In a sequence of aubades, or dawn poems, Owen records the practice of walking by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770415246
• ISBN13: 9781770415249
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Misfit Book
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"