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Gillian Sze

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Poetry

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Gillian Sze is the author of three chapbooks published with Withwords Press: This is the Colour I Love You Best (2007), A Tender Invention (2008), and, most recently, Allow Me to Conjugate (2010). In 2004, she received the University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize and her collection, Fish Bones (DC Books, 2009), was shortlisted for the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize and longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award in poetry. Her work has appeared in a number of national and international journals. She co-edits Branch , a quarterly online magazine showcasing Canadian art, design and writing. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing a PhD. The Anatomy of Clay (ECW Press, Spring 2011) is her...more

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"Like most primitive cultures, New York has no feeling for nonsense. Wit is as far as they can go...."

“Like most primitive cultures, New York has no feeling for nonsense. Wit is as far as they can go. That is what I miss the most, other than you, and what is slowly pulling my identity apart. No one speaks Martian, no one insults people arbitrarily, there is, to put it simply and leave it, no violence of the mind and of the heart, no one screams in the elevator.”

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Books by Gillian Sze

Average rating: 4.44 · 16 ratings · 2 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Fish Bones 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Anatomy of Clay 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Black Heart Magazine (Issue #1) by Laura Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gillian Sze (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Greg Santos (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994

by Jorie Graham

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Rustle of Language

by Roland Barthes

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