Anne Michaels

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January 01, 1958

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1958. She is the author of one novel Fugitive Pieces, which explores the possibility of love and faith alter the Holocaust, with language marked by power, elegance, and integrity. Ms. Michaels, who has also composed musical scores for the theater, has said "when you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know--you can only hope—that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely."

Anne Michaels's two collections of poetry are The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won...more

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Anne Michaels's Books

Average rating: 3.89 · 7,161 ratings · 819 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors

	Fugitive Pieces 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 5,936 ratings — published 1996 — 38 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter Vault 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers: Poems 4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 145 ratings — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skin Divers 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miner's Pond 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1991	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Railtracks by Anne Michaels, John Berger 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Garden 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Vault by Anne Michaels, Karen White (Translation) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Correspondences: A poem and portraits by Anne Michaels, Bernice Eisenstein (Illustrations) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quello Che La Luce Insegna 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

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“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

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“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”
― Anne Michaels

tags: citing-a-hebrew-saying, in-fugitive-pieces

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