Poetry, Lyric Essays

Erina Harris latest collection of poetics and lyric essays is described here: "Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead is a book of gorgeous music that reinvents the architecture of our formation—rhyme, nonsense, myths and nursery rhymes. Harris brilliantly reimagines the stories that accompany us as we grow into language, and, further, her new work reimagines the possibilities of our growing. In poems and notes exploring new forms of flourishing, Harris articulates an ethics of profound collaboration, of an intertextual, subversive relationality. Articulating this necessary interconnection, Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead invites us to attend to and sing what is “incantatory from within.” (Julie Joosten, author of Nought). For more in

For further comments on the works included, please view Juror Comments for recent awarding of Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Awards (2024):
https://artsawards.ca/artist/erina-harris/

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