Sympathy for the Couriers

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Peter Richardson ISBN: 9781550652819
Publisher: Véhicule Press Publication: January 1, 2009
Imprint: Signal Editions Language: English
Author: Peter Richardson
ISBN: 9781550652819
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Publication: January 1, 2009
Imprint: Signal Editions
Language: English

Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his most ventriloquistic. The “couriers” in question are the banged-up, long-suffering, Dantesque voices who, speaking through the poet, deliver their news: heartfelt, often heartbreaking admissions that, nonetheless, are always buoyant with aphoristic brio and panache. But the most important messenger here is Richardson himself, who having establishing a reputation as one of Canada’s best poets, has given us his most challenging book.

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Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his most ventriloquistic. The “couriers” in question are the banged-up, long-suffering, Dantesque voices who, speaking through the poet, deliver their news: heartfelt, often heartbreaking admissions that, nonetheless, are always buoyant with aphoristic brio and panache. But the most important messenger here is Richardson himself, who having establishing a reputation as one of Canada’s best poets, has given us his most challenging book.

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