Simmers Bren (15 results)

Softcover. Condition: New. Brand new book. Poetry; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 79 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pictorial paper wraps,106 pages : illustrations, map, signed in ink on title "for Kathy-in friendship -ben,"a fine copy with publishers band on back wrap. "Bren Simmers's 'Pivot Point' is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. While buoyed by the pleasures of adventure and camaraderie, and by a deep reverence for nature, Simmers finds herself struggling to inhabit the trip's trickier elements - storms, insects, physical fatigue, conflict, doubt, and disorientation - and, as with the challenges and changes in her own life, to embrace them with confidence. Recounted in a journal-entry style with poems interleaving each day's narrative, 'Pivot Point' is a frank reflection on the roles friendship, mindfulness, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives."--taken from dustcover jacket flap Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Emma FitzGerald (Illustrator) (illustrator). Signed by Author on tp. Book.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Hastings-Sunrise is a love letter to a fleeting place and time. Bren Simmers's second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval. As it is colonized by tides of matching plaid and diners serving pulled-pork pancakes, condo developments replace the small businesses and cheap rentals that once gave the area its charm.Much like opening a set of nesting dolls, leafing through the collection exposes further layers of depth and intimacy. Within the context of cultural change, Simmers explores the meaning to be found in everyday things: the making of a home, the life built from daily routines. At the same time, she reveals the dissonance that can occur between personal and large-scale change: 'Twitter feed of melting sea ice, / colony collapse / while we picnic under pink ribbons, / kiss again like we mean it.'Throughout the collection, the poet's eye unfailingly lights on the perfect details to evoke a scene: 'On Mr. Donair's spit, / the earth rotates. Papal smoke emits / from Polonia Sausage, semis shunt / downtown.' Visual poems forming maps of Christmas lights and autumn colours further bring the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood to life, illustrating the interweaving of human and natural spaces and locating 'home' in between.Like a tree clothed in multicoloured yarn or a miniature house filled with free books, Hastings-Sunrise is a gift to readers, beautiful in its simplicity.…

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Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBren Simmers is the author of one previous book of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). She is the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award, was a finalist for The Malahat Re.

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