"Karen Solie must be read wherever English is spoken" - Michael Hofmann, LRB. Wellwater showcases a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are flexible, philosophical, sincere, and filled with insight, Wellwater conducts a self-reflective dialogue with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink. There are thresholds, "doors between dimensions" where our former selves or lost loved ones speak again: "death is not Saskatchewan," a encountered soul indifferently notes, "we are not all known in this place." Solie excels as a poet of the ephemeral, of the "vague level... small museums of misdeeds," motel rooms emitting a "low sound of threat." Her wandering, syntactically elegant poems often culminate in a revelatory honesty, a precise acknowledgment of emotional stakes. Karen Solie is increasingly recognized as one of the key voices in global poetry. Wellwater will delight those already familiar with her work, while new readers will be awestruck. "Capable, philosophical, smart... [Solie is] adept at drawing great wisdom from the ordinary" - Griffin Prize judges, Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie, and Carl Phillips. "Occasionally didactic and anecdotal, always realistic, Solie is a philosophical conversationalist... This is a book that comes at the right time, grappling with our climate upheaval" - Kit Fan, Observer.
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