Elise Partridge's The Exiles' Gallery extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, Fielder's Choice and Chameleon Hours, praised as "first-rate" by James Pollock for their "authenticity" by Stephanie Bolster, and "brilliant precisions that reflect life's plenitude" by Rosanna Warren. This new book presents moving portraits of a gallery of characters from North America, from homeless men to a wildlife illustrator, from a mother struggling to pay the rent to a generous stove repairman. Poems that skewer the vanities and complacency of the powerful sit alongside works about loss, love, and resilience written from the author's perspective as a cancer patient. Stephen Burt has compared Partridge's "impressive poems" to Elizabeth Bishop's. With her "flawless ear" (Jacqueline Osherow) and "pitch-perfect verse" (Ken Babstock), Partridge reveals again the "unfeigned passion" and "ardent, compassionate, and unsentimental vision" that have made her books "thrilling, memorable." (Robert Pinsky)

Book Information
ISBN 9781770899797
Author Elise Partridge
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 213g