Sew Him Up (Quattro Books Poetry) 14th edition

No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him Up: stitching together intelligent invention and free-flowing intuition in one charged, open-ended packet after another. What was domesticated breaks its shackles and runs wild; devotion to friends and family remodels a ferocious tenderness; art and the art of living strip down, dress up, and in violently playful ways reveal their innards and extremities; while love itself ? with a tease of humour ? both resists and embraces being ?made northern??