Common Place
Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our most private and public moments of seeing and being seen. With considered, quiet urgency, this poem witnesses our ambiguous, aching present and looks towards what comes next.
Watch for theplaces where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.'
Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife
Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tatteredrecord keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, home of the lesser, lowercase subject.* Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.'
Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven's Thieves
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Watch for theplaces where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.'
Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife
Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tatteredrecord keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, home of the lesser, lowercase subject.* Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.'
Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven's Thieves
Sarah Pinder
Sarah Pinder est une poétesse canadienne contemporaine, publiée aux éditions **Coach House Books**. Son premier recueil, *Cutting Room* (2012), marque son entrée en littérature par une écriture à la fois délicate et percutante, explorant les tensions entre technologie, désir et violence. Son œuvre, saluée pour son originalité, a été finaliste pour des prix littéraires et publiée dans plusieurs revues canadiennes. Elle vit et travaille à Toronto, où elle continue d’interroger les paysages humains et technologiques.
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