Quiet Night Think
Marilyn Stanley
, Karen Nordrum
, Deana Bueley
, Jude Castillo
, Barry Kazimer
, Simran Bassi
, Andrea Gillespie
, Deb Philippon
, Linda Leitch
, Holly Elisabeth
, Elaine Baptie
, Michelle McGrane
, Noelle Walsh
, Tina May
, Jacob Cebulak
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Chelsey Boley
, Anndee Newson
, Sarah Schwartz
, Melissa Kohlman
, Hoda Montazeri
, Joshua Lewis
, cassandra schiemann
, Dawn Macdonald
, Nora Gould
, Hailey Slaviero
, Chris Carvalho
, P. Thompson
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Nancy Daoust
, Lise Gaston
, LJ Law
, Kim Cappellina
, Michelle Power
, Brenda Power
, Maria Mclean
, Frances Boyle
, Sandra Dufoe
, Aingeal Stone
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Megan Brodie
, Melissa Poremba
, Patricia Johnson
, John Bell
, Karen Kendrick
, Charles Leblanc
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Christopher Evans
, Rachel Edmonds
, BJ Underwood
, Heather Belliveau
, Lauren Seal
, Carl Scott
, Patricia McKeown
, Natasa Ilic
, Vicki Bedford
, ilona storie
, Lynn Hallson
, Deanna Radford
, Randi Ann Doll
, Robert Hykawy
, Joann Horgan
, Rebecca Forest
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Ken Gilmour
, Teira Stauth
, Benita Hartwell
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Pearl Pirie
, Andrea Pole
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Stephanie Baird
, Eli Cherney
, Elissa Clemens
, Kevin Smith
, Cassandra Schiemann
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Tanya Korigan
, Lisa Mallia
, Katie Olivier
, Sonia Adams
, Yolande Thivierge
, Amanda Earl
, Melanie Solar
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Lara Maynard
, Laurie Burns
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Megan Bishop
, Sara Conway
, Janet Meisner
, April van der Ham
, Chris Lantz
, Janice Cournoyer
, Debra Chandler
, Thelma Ball
, Nadia Cescato
editor@49thShelf.com
“One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition. During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze’s memory of reading Li Bai’s poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures. In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?
