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Poetry Canadian

If Pressed

by (author) Drew McEwan

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2017
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771663267
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $18.00

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Description

If Pressed--the second collection of poetry from Andrew McEwan—explores forms of pressurized and pressurizing language as a means to shed light on the depressions we live among.
Overlapping language of fear and speculation gain momentum in these poems, where layers of atmospheric and emotional lexicons—ranging from descriptions of the mid-2000s financial crisis and subsequent recession, to writing on melancholia from the 1600s, to weather reports and condo listings, to pharmaceutical sales pitches and literary book reviews—focus attention on the ways that anxiety so easily and completely infiltrates our daily personal and public experiences.

About the author

ANDREW MCEWAN was born May 20, 1988. He is the author of the chapbook Input / Output from Cactus Press. His writing was awarded the E.J. Pratt Poetry Medal. He is finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto where he has been the editor-in-chief at the Acta Victoriana Literary Journal and poetry editor at The Hart House Review.

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