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Product Description This first "selected" collection of poetry by the well-known Governor-General's Literary Award winner covers 20 years of work and traces the development of her powerful and disquieting feminist style. It charts the razor sharp edges her poetry continues to travel, along the boundaries wheremeaning is constructed. The body, women's bodies in particular, and language intersect to dislocate expectation and reinvent the world. About the Author Erin Moure was born in Calgary and now lives in Montreal. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry - Empire, York Street; Wanted Alive; Domestic Fuel; Furious (winner of the Governor General's Award); WSW (West South West); and Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love. Erin Moure alsowon the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and two national magazine awards for poetry.