The Hunter

Breathtaking new poetry by the author ofThe Cottage Builder's Letter In this brilliantly evoked new gathering of poems, George Murray creates a strange and menacing world, pulsating with sensory intensity. These poems don't just inquire, they demand answers, and go seeking them through the realms of the past, the present, and the future. Here are stories and images that challenge, threaten, and fascinate by their dreamlike clarity, flickering through kaleidoscopic changes and throwing off resonant statements like sparks. "On either side of awe," as Murray puts it in these innovative new poems, "stand horror and reverence." Events and figures emerge swiftly out of one another in a landscape partly a futuristic or ancient wasteland, partly the generous earth we know. The collection as a whole forms a saga, moving from contemporary damage toward the possibilities disaster? recovery? that always exist "in the few moments we have under the sky."

<b>George Murray</b> is the author of two acclaimed books of poetry, <i>Carousel</i> (2000) and <i>The Cottage Builder’s Letter</i> (2001). His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines in Canada, and in the U.S. and Australia, including <i>Descant</i>,<i> The Iowa Review</i>,<i> The Globe and Mail</i>,<i> Jacket</i>,<i> Mid-American Review</i>,<i> Nerve</i>,<i> Painted Bride Quarterly</i>, and<i> Slope</i>. He is also an editor at <i>Maisonneuve Magazine</i>. Raised in rural Ontario, he now lives in New York City.<b><br></b><br>Selected poems from his most recent book of poetry, <i>The Hunter, </i> have appeared in <i>The Globe and Mail</i> and in <i>100</i> <i>Poets Against War</i>.