Fugue With Bedbug — Poetry Collection by Anne-Marie Turza

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House of Anansi Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing: The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.

Be startled by metaphysical snails and the ghosts of footnotes in the dark. Fugue with Bedbug is part musical reference, part portraiture, a series of uncanny poems attending to time and mortality, an eccentric essay, and a musical score. Using the fugue form as a foil and a quiet compositional strategy, poet Anne-Marie Turza argues that the mission: “in afterthought, was Jell-O, a salad of delicate intent and shimmy . . .”

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