The Exiles' Gallery: Special Edition

By Elise Partridge

Book Overview

Elise Partridge's The Exiles' Gallery extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, Fielder's Choice and Chameleon Hours, praised as first-rate by James Pollock for their authenticity by Stephanie Bolster, and brilliant precisions that reflect life's plenitude by Rosanna Warren. This new book presents moving portraits of a gallery of characters from North America, from homeless men to a wildlife illustrator, from a mother struggling to pay the rent to a generous stove repairman. Poems that skewer the vanities and complacency of the powerful sit alongside works about loss, love, and resilience written from the author's perspective as a cancer patient. Stephen Burt has compared Partridge's impressive poems to Elizabeth Bishop's. With her "flawless ear" (Jacqueline Osherow) and "pitch-perfect verse" (Ken Babstock), Partridge reveals again the "unfeigned passion" and "ardent, compassionate, and unsentimental vision" that have made her books "thrilling, memorable." (Robert Pinsky)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770899790
• ISBN13: 9781770899797
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"