CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"Imagining a vast blue expanse of what a poem might beThe Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a laboratory of poetic approaches and experiments. It mines the personal and imaginary lives of Stuart Ross and portraits of his grief and internal torment, while paying homage to many of the poets literary heroes. It contains new entries in Rosss ongoing Razovsky poems, prose poems, a remix of an entire poetry book by dear friend Nelson Ball, a couple of collaborative poems, some oneline poems, and lots more. In an era of thematic poetry and conceptual poetry books, this collection is a celebration of possibilities and miscellany."Stuart Ross doesnt hold back, happily for us. In letting his poems go where they want to go, sometimes by leaps and bounds, he reminds us that poetic rules are meant to be broken and that the results, in the hands of a skillful poet, can be moving, or amusing, or subversive, or exhilarating, or all of the above. His work brims with surprises. From start to finish, The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a delightful and thoroughly engaging book." Charles North, author of News, Poetry and Poplars Poems/Selected Prose"Here, were invited to gawk at horror and kick it in the pants, but also to notice the horror within us, because we all have it, and Ross doesnt shy away from the odd and uncomfortable. Hes easy with sentiment, honest about grief, clear about death being our final destination, and behooves us...

Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: Coach House Books; Classification: DC; Weight: 308 g; Dimensions: 201 x 128 x 12

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