After a brief period of mourning, it was the afternoon. This mirror is selfie-proof, a machine that dams back the gloom. When machines dream they dream of stopping. But this bulimic is all hangnails with a hankering to throatsing. grew up in Orono, Ontario, Canada. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award for poetry. His first collection of poems, Crabwise to the Hounds, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry. His most recent publication is a translation of the from Old Icelandic into English. He is a poetry editor at Coach House Books. He currently lives in Montreal.