All We Saw

All We SawBy: Anne Michaels Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best selling, award winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give not only take from us." This

Will a gift from the fairy tree help save the day

it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself

Rich in historical detail and suspensful to the last

Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z

'Wildly imaginative

A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good

who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate

is the ability to rise above fear

and a special woman

These are just some of the talismans of an imagination as capacious and as full of wonder as that of any writer today

the sorceress is unleashing upon the mortal world the living incarnations of the Seven Deadly Sins

To Annabelle