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Bright Machine - by Canisia Lubrin (Hardcover)

Name: Bright Machine - by Canisia Lubrin (Hardcover)
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SKU: 1010282480
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From critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes her highly anticipated new collection, Bright Machine.
About the Author: CANISIA LUBRIN's work has been recognized by the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
80 Pages
Poetry, Canadian

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From critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes her highly anticipated new collection, Bright Machine.

This profoundly engaged, boldly formed long suite poem probes the legacy of human intelligence put in service of ruin. The rhythm of Morse Code drives the poem's haunting music as Lubrin records the effects of warcraft on times of peril and possibility for human cohabitation. The result is a book of chimeric monologues in an invented form Lubrin calls the tesseract--a poem of sixteen lines of fragmented music, shaped by the logic of the mathematical cube--four stanzas growing from the quatrain, each increased by one line until the final one-line stanza.

The poet addresses the myth of the developed world's heirs, casualties, and its wing of weapons that guarantee(d) the successes of empires. Bright Machine reckons with the saga of civilization as the story of arms history--and its emissaries' expansive appetites for recasting conquest and mass killing--in heartening, urgent poetry for a turbulent world.

About the Author

CANISIA LUBRIN's work has been recognized by the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Born in St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, and is the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .22 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.25 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 80

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: Canadian

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Format: Hardcover

Author: Canisia Lubrin

Language: English

Street Date: October 13, 2026

TCIN: 1010282480

UPC: 9780771019951

Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-1774

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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