Existing Music Madeline Sonik In the early 1900s

In the early 1900s

Munce achieves what creative writing students are always nagged to do: show and not tell

"Not only does this enchanting collection of poems defy expectations and adventurously experiment with stanza forms and syntax

Robert Chursinoff is just such an author

spiritual sphere of existence is connected with the material world of nature and human society

Existing Music Madeline Sonik In the early 1900sDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs