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    Fugue With Bedbug
    Fugue With Bedbug
    Fugue With Bedbug
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    Fugue With Bedbug

    By Anne-Marie Turza

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    The much-anticipated second collection from the author of The Quiet.

     Anne-Marie Turza’s Fugue With Bedbug is part musical reference, part portraiture, a series of uncanny poems attending to time and mortality, an eccentric essay, and a musical score. Using the fugue form as a quiet compositional strategy, Turza argues that the mission: “in afterthought, was Jell-O, a salad of delicate intent and shimmy …”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
    Release dateApr 5, 2022
    ISBN9781487010737
    Fugue With Bedbug
    Author

    Anne-Marie Turza

    ANNE-MARIE TURZA is the author of The Quiet (House of Anansi Press) and the chapbook Slip Minute (Baseline Press). She lives on Vancouver Island.

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