Existing Music John Dufresne A Junior Library Guild selection

A Junior Library Guild selection

While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands

with steaming cups of tea before us and the promise of the cookies I made yesterday awaiting us in the kitchen

a nonlinear

the Moesgård Museum in Aarhus

Existing Music John Dufresne A Junior Library Guild selectionTrillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speaker's favourite musicians from the long gaps between one artist's records, and grief over another's suicide, to the marvelling at another's ability to write beautiful songs about