Fugitive pieces book review5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Leading us through the journey of Jakob Beer, a child in Poland orphaned during the war, saved by a Greek geologist and later brought to Toronto, Michaels transposed textures from her own travels in a work of densely packed metaphorical prose that could anywhere on the page be atomized as poetry. An archeological excavation of hidden strata of memory, pain and loss, it was researched for years like a work of non-fiction while the telling was freighted with the evocative descriptiveness of verse in relaying a fractured, epic narrative. This remarkable and justly celebrated debut novel by the Canadian poet Anne Michaels toils across the entire spectrum of letters. We are asking our readers for the most influential Canadian books published in the last quarter century. This post is part of the LRC’s 25 year anniversary project. ![]()
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