Product Description: This new collection from one of our premier poets showcases works of uncommon spirituality, explorations into philosophy and science, as well as evocations of love, grief, and unexpected comfort. This selection includes both new and out-of-print poems from: Until the Light Bends, Uncommon Prayer, Learning to Ride, The Hummingbird Murders, Dangerous Graces, and Dark Galaxies...read more

Product Description: Siolence is a word coined by Penn Kemp to encapsulate the blending that so often occurs between violence and the silence enabling it. For more than a decade, a group of feminist writers in the League of Canadian Poets, self-dubbed the Feminist Caucus, have been meeting to wrestle with issues of language and gender, to share revelations and convictions and poems, and to reaffirm their place in the community of people who spend much of their lives working to end the violence of language and the silencing of voices that corrupt our society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)