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An elegant new collection from the author of "A Broken Bowl" - shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

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This collection is a haunting ode to the lives we have felt too briefly, known only in passing, and yearn to hold still.

A new work by one of Canada's acclaimed poets.

The story of one man struggling to express his personal views within a society that demands conformity.Peter is trying to live a good life, a faithful life. When he begins to question the doctrine of his Mennonite church and his faith in general, he is ostracized from the community. A decree by the church forces his wife to abandon him if not in person, then in spirit. The strain of domestic and community pressures forces Peter deeper into iso...

With Flicker and Hawk Friesen expands the scope of his highly praised earlier works. These are poems from the gut and heart, occasionally underlined by other voices, dealing with themes of mortality, love, marriage, and spiritual explorations.

You Dont Get to Be a Saint is a sharp-edged collage full of the echoes of human movement and voicePatrick Friesen is one of the poets we cant do without.Dennis Lee

Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow. Picture-building poetry doesn't get better than th...

Winner of the 1994 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).Blasphemers Wheel is a representative collection of Patrick Friesens work, including selections from The Shunning, Flicker and Hawk, Unearthly Horses and You Dont Get to Be a Saint.With his customary stateliness and elegance of mind, Friesen engages us to think somewhere between yes and noa place, as it turns out, filled with the voices of frien...