ALL WE SAW

In this passionate, profound collection, Anne Michaels explores one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of, and i ncapable of'. Here is the paradox at the heart of loss, the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that 'death ... give/not only take from us'. A sea in darkness, a woman's hair shining in light, rain falling... how quiet must a voice be in order to be he ard? In this way, desire is evoked with intensity and precision. By the end, we are left with a renewed awareness of the mystery at the core ...[Read more]