Susan Musgrave, in her novels and journalism as well as her poems, has often seemed to offer a teasing commentary upon her sometimes outrageous private life, but The Embalmer\u2019s Art<\/em>\u00a0reveals that she has written, and continues to write, some of the most haunting and transformational love poems of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first comprehensive selection (1970-1985) from Canada\u2019s most controversial and versatile poet. The poems of crisis and elemental enchantment which made the young Susan Musgrave\u2019s reputation with her first books, Songs of the Sea Witch<\/em> and Entrance of the Celebrant<\/em>, were followed by increasingly sophisticated publications, such as the scabrous and cosmopolitan irony of Cocktails at the Mausoleum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Poetry; 1991 \u2022 6 x 9 inches \u2022 PB 183 pages \u2022 9781550960112<\/p>\n

Rare – less than 20 copies<\/p>\n

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