Ordinary Hours by Karen Enns
$12.00 – $20.00
Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist
8.75 x 6 Inches | 88 Pages
Publication Date: February 1, 2014
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781926829906
|
Trade Paperback $20 |
|
|
EPUB + PDF $12 |
In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns’ Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty, we revisit Enns’ rural Mennonite childhood, replete with the sensuousness of “diesel fuel” and “hot peaches.” Enns also explores the Mennonite exodus from Russia, tracking its faint but unmistakable reverberations in the daily lives of its survivors and revealing the redemptive character of that dailiness. Reading an Enns poem feels effortless: her rhythms and phrasing are so minutely calibrated that the poem unfolds as if of its own accord.
Praise for Karen Enns:
“Using unfussy language, Enns has a sumptuous knack for the visual and a stateliness of observation that allows for a slow, deep rhythm to be established across the poems…” — Jury Citation, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Press Coverage:
Break Events and Gelassenheit — Canadian Literature
The Recommend: April 2017 — 49th Shelf
About the Author
Karen Enns grew up in a Mennonite farming community in southern Ontario. She currently lives and writes in Victoria, B.C., where she works as a private piano instructor. Her first book of poetry, That Other Beauty, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award.
Related Titles
