{"id":4550,"date":"2017-10-12T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2016\/04\/27\/featured-reviews-of-sleeping-in-tall-grass\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:20:03","slug":"featured-reviews-of-sleeping-in-tall-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/10\/12\/featured-reviews-of-sleeping-in-tall-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &#8220;Sleeping in Tall Grass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/797-9781772121223-sleeping-in-tall-grass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sleeping in Tall Grass<\/em><\/a> is an outstanding first poetry collection&#8230;. In the opening long poem, &#8216;Nowhere in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/797-9781772121223-sleeping-in-tall-grass\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6757 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223-88x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223-88x150.jpg 88w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223-263x450.jpg 263w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223-768x1316.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223-598x1024.jpg 598w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/10\/9781772121223.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/a>Sight,&#8217; Therrien uses the physical experience of walking across the prairie as a metaphor for poetry while a walking rhythm sparks spiritual insight&#8230;. <em>Sleeping in Tall Grass<\/em> is a wise book, erudite and philosophical at times but foremost a spiritual and redemptive work.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/thegoose\/vol15\/iss1\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full review<\/a>] Volume 15, Issue 1,\u00a0Gillian Harding-Russell,\u00a0<em>The Goose,\u00a0<\/em>Volume 15, Issue 1<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a complex and multi-layered book, offering poems that are rooted in the prairie landscape, featuring a multitude of voices that speak to the familial, the historical, the philosophical and the mystical. Many of the poems are dark, weighted and at times exquisitely painful&#8230;. The personal stories he deconstructs show how the speaker submits, turns back to the land that begat him, until he sleeps in tall grass, until readers hear in &#8216;Envoy,&#8217; the final poem, &#8216;a voice singing of its own forgetting.'&#8221;\u00a0Anne Sorbie,\u00a0<em>Alberta Views<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Short-listed for the\u00a0<b>Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\u00a0<\/b>and the\u00a0<b>Alberta Book Awards, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Read Richard&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2016\/08\/30\/from-uap-author-richard-therrien\/?preview_id=7142&amp;preview_nonce=4a76ef9709&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email<\/a> he wrote to us after his Edmonton book launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sleeping in Tall Grass is an outstanding first poetry collection&#8230;. 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