{"id":8704,"date":"2023-02-03T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2023-02-03T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T16:09:15","slug":"poetry-blurbs-strong-meaningful-words-beget-more-in-a-beautiful-cycle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2023\/02\/03\/poetry-blurbs-strong-meaningful-words-beget-more-in-a-beautiful-cycle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry blurbs: Strong meaningful words beget more in a beautiful cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We love publishing poetry. The collections themselves are stunning and show the work of months and years. The poets are brilliant and fascinating to work with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then we get to read blurbs about their work, which is thrilling in yet another way. We will be sharing the blurbs for our three new poetry collections in the coming weeks, starting with Monitoring Station<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise for Monitoring Station <\/em>by Sonja Ruth Greckol<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“An illuminated simmer of sweetness from a poet who invents vessels for language to carry us over into presence, into the before and the after, holding us to the now. But oh, the exquisite workings of the mind over what matters, the inescapable dailyness of bloodlines, and geography, interdimensional and relational; a theory of everything.” \u2014Lillian Allen<\/a>, dub poet, reggae musician, writer, Juno winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSonja Greckol\u2019s Monitoring Station<\/em> is an enthralling exercise in intricating: the opposite, she explains, of extricating, thus \u2018a verb meaning entangle or ensnare.\u2019 What we find ourselves intricated with here\u2014in propulsive, rippling, encircling syntax\u2014is space and time, biological and cosmological origins, the pandemic and the human hash of colonialism and climate change. Under Greckol\u2019s lyric microscope, \u2018small things loom large\u2019 and beauty is always a hair\u2019s breadth from disaster. This is one of our very best poetic minds, humming along at the top of her form.\u201d \u2014Stephen Collis<\/a>, author of A History of the Theories of Rain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“With the analytic mind of a statistician and the flow of a mystic, Sonja Greckol takes us into a chaotic, poetic fray as fraught near-pasts open out into possibilities. By tracing points, lines, and waves that situate a body (of a person, of a work) in all its specificities along with its imbricated activities that accumulate into (and rub against) structures, institutions, and systems, Greckol suggests ways towards futures in which social relations can be remade to accommodate more ethical interrelations among individuals and communities.” \u2014Shannon Maguire<\/a>, author of Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina<\/a><\/em> and Fur(l) Parachute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We love publishing poetry. The collections themselves are stunning and show the work of months and years. The poets are brilliant and fascinating to work with. And then we get to read blurbs about their work, which is thrilling in yet another way. We will be sharing the blurbs for our three new poetry collections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,110,151,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-books","category-poetry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}