Things that keep and do not change

In Things that keep and do not change, Susan Musgrave dances on the threshold of ecstasy, madness, rage, and desolation, and goes further--to life beyond the moment of extremity. Yet even as we are caught in the undertow of betrayal and loss, we are buoyed up by a terrible sanity that reveals humour and beauty in the shoals of loneliness and pain. By turns dark, playful, and edgy, these poems are ...