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Vancouver Poet Alex Leslie offers repeating melodies and intimate abstractions

“I, not here, write.” The magnificent The things I heard about you by Vancouver writer Alex Leslie is a book of thought-provoking poetry. A mixture of prose, narrative, and erasure poetry, things entices the reader with lyrical repeating melodies. As the poems get smaller, the words become so much brighter. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative poetry, this debut poetry collection is fresh and abstract. The relationship between the reader and speaker is intimate. “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” for instance, is a throbbing tale of loss and the need for multiple covers of the song on an iPod…

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