The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude

by Jill Battson

Overview

Jill Battson’s highly anticipated new collection of poems, The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude, pushes deep into the heart of the human condition. In lush and visceral language Jill explores loss, beauty, nature, Francis Bacon’s ordered hoarding and the meaning of Martha Stewart. Jill’s poems whisper like muted Miles Davis tunes melancholy in the ear, or shout their colours from the top of desert mesas. Many of the poems in this collection are a result of collaborative artist process with dancers, composers, singers and painters, but above all they will live in your memory like a perfect pearl long after their first reading. {Guernica Editions}

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550715903
Publisher:	Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Essential Poets series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	469 KB

About the Author

Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cobourg, Ontario. She was responsible for creating and running the successful poetry reading series The Poets’ Refuge and has initiated and produced many exciting poetry events. Jill is widely published across North America and the UK. Her first book, Hard Candy, was received to great acclaim and nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. She has written plays and solo works, opera librettos and electro acoustic sound projects. Dark Star Requiem, an oratorio for which Jill wrote the libretto, opened the 2010 Luminato Festival, and was recently published in book form.

Editorial Reviews

"An eclectic mix of lyric, narrative and ekphrastic poetry with a generous helping of humour reveals the range and depth of Jill Battson's newest collection. It's no surprise these poems brim with the names of friends and loved ones: Jill Battson's poetic generosity overflows." — Carolyn Smart (author of "Hooked - Seven Poems") 

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