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Interview in Vancouver Sun
Thanks to The Vancouver Sun for this–somehow it’s making the rounds. Q Tell us a bit about your book. A The book is a working through of elegy. It’s very personal, and yet it has conceptual and visual elements that make it a little more playful. It’s prosey, breezy, imagistic grief. Q […]
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Georgia Straight picks MxT’s strange lyrics for its book of the week
Poet and one-time Vancouverite Sina Queyras’s latest collection often speaks in dialects of engineering and technology, but only to express the most heartfelt human experiences. The book’s title, M x T (Coach House), is short for “Memory x Time”, an equation she sets down to reflect the workings of grief. These strangely lyrical elegies will […]
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Thanks Publishers Weekly
‘Poetry succeeds where science fails to measure grief in this brilliant new collection by the esteemed Queyras.’ –Publishers Weekly, Spring Round Up, January 24, 2014
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Sina Queyras kicks off the 24th annual International Virginia Woolf Conference
Just announced! Poetry off the Shelf Sina Queyras Wednesday, June 4, 7 pm A reading by Sina Queyras kicks off the 24th annual International Virginia Woolf Conference in Chicago. Queyras, whose work often reflects a deep engagement with Woolf, is the author of several collections, including Unleashed and Lemon Hound.
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Sylvia Plath’s Elegy for Sylvia Plath by Sina Queyras
Here’s another poem from MxT, due out from Coach House in April 2014 (see last post for details). Sylvia Plath’s Elegy for Sylvia Plath by Sina Queyras : Poetry Magazine.
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New book spring 2014
MxT, or “Memory x Time,” is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories over and over in their hands, by invoking other poets, by appropriating science, by studying the history of elegy. Devastating, cheeky, allusive, hallucinatory: this is Queyras […]
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Tightrope
Happy to have a poem in this month’s Poetry magazine. It’s actually not a poem, or wasn’t intended to be a poem. The magazine asked me to write a few of my “Don’ts” as a follow up to Pound’s famous, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.” You’ll find my contribution, Tightrope, here.
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