Triangularity

Alice Major has published 12 poetry collections as well as a book of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science (UAlberta Press). Her awards include the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta’s Distinguished Artist medal.

“Alice Major looks to ‘decide what is true’ in an increasingly complicated world. Her ways of understanding where good is, where hope lies, and how to build a hopeful creative community welcome the reader into the text. The author uses her own uncertainty as a way forward, a comforting thought when certainty seems in short supply." Tanis MacDonald, author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

• About this book—and its titleIn the beginningWorld spelled backwardsThe wide and starry sky: Falling in love with the poemAddress: 1959Confessional: Shame and the battered heartKoreConversation repairKiyamCreation mythsThe number gods: SevenCredo: believing wordsSaint Bridgid and the Blind Nun DaraScansion and scienceFrom Welcome to the AnthropoceneLet us count the ways: Love linesSonnet for ValentinesSymmetries of translationSymmetries of dilationCurrentsAfterwordWe have elegies to writed2 = (X-x)2 + (Y-y)2 + (Z-z)2 – c(T-t)2Eternity the other nightThis is my mortichniumNotes and sourcesReferences