New ebooks From Canadian Indies
Description
Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. 1996 marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice.
Awards
- Commended, Quill & Quire Books of the Year: Fiction
Editorial Reviews
Sara Peters’ large-minded speculative vision is not interested in a carbon copy world of appearances, but in the “throbbing interior” of her imagination.
— Table Music
Peters' language… sparkles with clarity -- not to mention steely nerve.
— CBC Books
Peters' achingly stoic collection of poems is vibrant with narrative voices that are clear, confident and unforgiving.
Wildly gripping and honest, 1996 conveys the same daunting feeling in thirty distinct ways.
— The Los Angeles Review
There’s something very Bishop-like about the poems in 1996.
— Body Literature
…this exceptionally brave and fierce first collection left me shaken.
— The Coastal Spectator
...[Sara Peter's] technique is impeccable...
— Quill & Quire
