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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Sound Passages

Sound Passages

Wickers, Brian

Paperback

Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry, Book 1

General Poetry

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 0228030706
ISBN13: 9780228030706
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 86
Language: English

all those things / we think / we have / to carry.

These poems travel widely. Across three sequences - Airborne, Landlocked, and Sound Passages - Brian Wickers navigates the outer worlds of the natural and celestial while also probing the inner terrain of the personal and the everyday.

Inviting and at times light-hearted in style, Sound Passages explores the intersections between the overlooked and mundane and the weightier matters and preoccupations of contemporary life. Whether focused on the troubled urban and natural environments where nothing's quiet, not even silence, confronting aging and loss, or exploring the uncertainties of modern dating and relationships, Wickers's keen eye and open ear for language take the reader into land- and soundscapes at once familiar and altered.

Exuberant and sombre, serious and ironic, the poems in Sound Passages leave the reader possessed and dispossessed - aware of both loss and the compensations we can find in the world and in ourselves. Wickers sees the world as beyond us yet still approachable: we can love just a little bit of it so much, and deeply enough / to be its keeper, to own and know it as a way of going home.

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