Loop

By the author ofLight Falls Through Youand the novelCanterbury Beach InLoop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will suffice: a Mobius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson's work shows us, again and again, the insight and excitement that come from the practice of a necessary craft in the service of a committed vision.

<b>Anne Simpson</b>’s first collection of poetry, <i>Light Falls Through You </i>(2000), won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Poetry Award. Her first novel, <i>Canterbury Beach </i>(2001), was shortlisted for the 2002 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. In 1997 her short story “Dreaming Snow” shared the Journey Prize, and in 1999 she was awarded the Bliss Carman Poetry Award. <br><br>Simpson lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she helped establish the Writing Centre at St. Francis Xavier University. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.