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Founded in fieldwork and reflection, Lost Places follows the author from small towns and rural landscapes, through a transitional city neighbourhood, to the challenging construction of an urban renewal loft, as she struggles to renovate living spaces and transform relationships after an early divorce.

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An innovative collection of stories from award-winning novelist and poet Cathryn Hankla. The figures in these stories struggle toward more truthful expressions of themselves, as outsiders whose dilemmas, emotions, and desires make them unmistakably human.

Negative history is a legal term referring to decisions that have been overruled or questioned in some way by an appellate court. Cathryn Hankla's Negative History alludes to such ambiguity in the domain of a more personal justice--as the title poem suggests: "Petals of morning/open in lucid order/opposed to the law.//Here is a question without an answer." Through these enthralling poems, the reader enters spheres of history and emotion in whi...

In these poems, photography, painting, and film all figure as arts that the mind uses to transcend loss and that the memory uses as aids to preserve the lost. Hankla's eye for detail--soft down between the shoulder blades of a young cousin, silvery waves in the hair of two aunts remembering their flapper days and displaying the braids they bobbed--is as immediate as a touch on the shoulder and as fascinating as light flickering on a movie screen.

In this powerful poetic sequence wrought of deft tercets, Cathryn Hankla navigates the slippery, everchanging territory between art and life. The death of the poet's father by car accident is the focal event for the collection, and all the poems reflect the collision of the physical and transcendent. Whether describing the abandoned nest of a Carolina wren or the excavation of the Kennewick Man, Hankla sounds a muted grief in these lines. But ...

Humorous, quirky, and spiritually meditative by turns, Cathryn Hankla's prose poems move by associative leaps and take their inspirations from cultural and personal icons. A shadow narrative moors the collection in the perspective of a woman who survives a difficult childhood to eventually comprehend the paradoxes of adult life and whose journeys into her heritage bring her to a fuller realization of her place in the world. Travels to Prague a...