Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry
In
My Shoes are Killing Me
, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on the "hazardous . . . treasurehouse" that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada's most well-regarded poets.
Robyn Sarah
is the author of nine previous collections. Ten of her poems have appeared on
The Writer's Almanac
, and her work has been anthologized in Garrison Keillor's
Good Poems for Hard Times
(2005),
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
(2005), and
The Bedford Introduction to Literature
(2001).