Anne Michaels

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January 01, 1958 in Canada

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From Canadian Poetry Online:

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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Books by Anne Michaels

Average rating: 3.87 · 4,501 ratings · 686 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Fugitive Pieces 3.93 avg rating — 3,769 ratings — published 1996 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Winter Vault 3.44 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Weight of Oranges / Miners Pond / Skin Divers: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 93 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Skin Divers 4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Miner's Pond 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Fugitive Pieces Reading Group Guide 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Railtracks by Anne Michaels, John Berger 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Quello Che La Luce Insegna 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Day the Dogs Took School Over! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Kivenkantajat 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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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

tags: love , place

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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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