Geographies of a Lover

Sarah de Leeuw’s Geographies of a Lover is a sexually charged travelogue of love, lust, and loss. Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Réage’s The Story of O and Marian Engel’s Bear, de Leeuw’s poetry uses the varied landscape of Canada—from the forests of North Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains, the prairies, and all the way to the Maritimes—to map the highs and lows of an explicit and raw sexual journey, from earliest infatuation to insatiable obsession and beyond.