Sina Queyras

A series of prose poems, Sina Queyras' Life, Still and Otherwise presents snap-shots of framed minute detail. From "The Boys of Smith Street" to "The Meat Painter," Queyras captures moments assembled in eerily beautiful tableaux vivants. These poems remind us of the French term for still life, nature mort (literally, dead nature). Not just poems about life per se these poems document the death of each moment: a clutter of polaroids marking things past. Descriptive and rich, each piece in this new collection comes to life in the reader's mind.

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Read a sample from Life, Still & Otherwise...

	Sina Queyras recently edited Open Field: Thirty Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea, New York). Sina is is the author of Slip (2001, ECW) and Teeth Marks (2004, Nightwood). Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, has recently been released from Coach House Books. Sina teaches at Rutgers and lives with her partner in Brooklyn. Read some of Sina's work in the archive...

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This edition is limited to 74 numbered copies handsewn in paper wrappers, with 26 copies hardbound copies, lettered A-Z, all signed by the author.

Numbered (wrapper) issue:
out of print
Summer 2005
ISBN 1-894744-19-5

Lettered (hardcover) issue:
out of print
Summer 2005
ISBN 1-894744-20-9

Printed on acid-free 80lb Gilbert Realm Text, the wrapper on handmade 100% cotton rag from New Delhi with Indian cotton dark green flyleaves; hand-stitched with archival waxed “natural” linen thread.
5" × 8.5"; 32pp.