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Poetry Canadian

The Woman Downstairs

by (author) Julie Bruck

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
May 1993
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771310451
    Publish Date
    May 1993
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626669
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $11.95

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Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)

In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a desire to know intensely life’s eccentric smallnesses, to gentle the beautiful out of the mundane. By turns witty and thoughtful, Bruck's writing is always graceful, always a delight.

About the author

Julie Bruck is the author of two previous books, both with Brick: The End of Travel (1999), and The Woman Downstairs (1993). Her recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Walrus, among other publications. A Montreal native, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

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