Ending With Music by Maurice Mierau
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Shortlisted 2003 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Shortlisted 2003 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book
Sex, senility, war, suicide
8.75 x 5.5 Inches | 86 Pages
Publication Date: August 16, 2002
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781894078238
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Maurice Mierau tackles big subjects — sex, senility, war, suicide — without a ponderous bone in his body. His approach to poetry is amazingly vital, with a strong pop sensibility and a wry sense of humour. These poems are ripe with the atmosphere of a Wim Wenders film, with a little Isaac Bashevis Singer sprinkled in — an unforgettable mix of horror and fable. Jarringly beautiful at times, Ending with Music offers a vivid sense of person and place, encompassing Rilke, the rural Mennonite past, and the atrocities in Srebrenica.
Praise for Ending with Music:
“Mierau’s poems are full of movement. …They launch narratives with spin, invite silence, then linger on the ear.” — Carol Shields
About the Author
Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer who has published poetry, fiction, and reviews since the mid-1980s. He was born in the United States and grew up in Africa, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Saskatchewan. His background is Mennonite. His interests include jazz (he plays upright bass in a jazz group), old Hollywood movies, science fiction, and basketball. He works as a technical writer.
