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    Vanishing Act
    Vanishing Act
    Vanishing Act
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    Vanishing Act

    By Giles Blunt

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    When Giles Blunt's first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it "immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction." The Globe and Mail calls him "a master storyteller," and fans of Blunt's fiction are familiar with his ability to shape a tense narrative for maximum impact. With Vanishing Act, his debut collection of verse, Blunt delivers equally potent strength and quality, opening up for the reader a new, "wicked pack of cards" in that deck, a cast of characters that speak to the different stages of personal journey: coming of age, heartbreak, terrible loss, the fear of death, philosophical musing, and the personal apocalypse that may one day come But more than anything, this rich sequence of poems is about how our personal identity changes over a lifetime. Blunt's devotion to structure is on full display in this collection, from cinquains to sapphics, from ballad to blank verse. This is not dry intellectualism or a stumbling over spurious epiphanies. Rather, red-blooded passion and emotional dynamics drive us through a panorama of city streets, along open highways, across bridges that connect or sometimes fail, and onward to the beaches and fields and all the spaces in between where we may lose our way or unexpectedly find ourselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherExile Editions
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781550965841
    Vanishing Act
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    Giles Blunt

    Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay Ontario, and now lives in Toronto. He has written scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat. His first psychological thriller, Forty Words for Sorrow, which also features Detectives Cardinal and Delorme, won the 2001 Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award

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      Book preview

      Vanishing Act - Giles Blunt

      Formatting note:

      In the electronic versions of this book

      blank pages that appear in the paperback

      have been removed.

      VANISHING ACT

      GILES BLUNT

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Blunt, Giles, author

      Vanishing act / Giles Blunt.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-583-4 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-55096-586-5 (pdf).--

      ISBN 978-1-55096-584-1 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55096-585-8 (mobi)

      I. Title.

      PS8553.L867V35 2016 C811'.54 C2015-908659-0 / C2015-908660-4

      Copyright © Giles Blunt, 2016

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

      144483 Southgate Road 14 – GD, Holstein, Ontario, N0G 2A0

      PDF, ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2016. All rights reserved

      Some of these poems were printed previously in Exile: The Literary Quarterly, Grain, Stardancer, Nebula, and Poetry Canada Review. Excerpts from Vanishing Act appeared in The Arvon Anthology of Poetry, edited by Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney. Three by Lauren appeared in Giles Blunt’s novel The Hesitation Cut, published by Penguin Random House Canada.

      We gratefully acknowledge, for their support toward our publishing activities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Exile Editions eBooks are for personal use of the original buyer only. You may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of this eBook, in whole or in part, without the expressed written consent of the publisher; to do so is an infringement of the copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any inquiries regarding publication rights, translation rights, or film rights – or if you consider this version to be a pirated copy – please contact us via e-mail at: info@exileeditions.com

      contents

      WHO I WASN’T

      Lazarus

      After the Photograph

      December, Queen Street

      Night in the Gatineaux

      The Obscure Lover

      Three-by-Five

      The Renunciation

      THREE BY LAUREN

      Darling

      Thin Ice

      Leg-hold Trap

      VANISHING ACT

      The Car

      Fool

      Pick a Card

      Host

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