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  100 Canadian Poets - Anne Michaels - Profile
Anne Michaels was born in 1958 in Toronto.
The imagery in Michaels’ poems reflect her interest in music and painting.
Her verse varies from short love poems, to elegies, to dramatic monologues, to long poems that balance lyrical and narrative tensions.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/a_michaels.htm   (191 words)

  
 OrangePrizeJudgesComments.page
Anne Michaels has won the 1997 Orange Prize for her novel ‘Fugitive Pieces.’ Speaking at the award ceremony in London, she said, “It was a properly surprisingly moment.
Anne Michaels was born in 1958, in Toronto, where she still lives.
Anne Michaels is currently at work on a new novel; when it comes out, perhaps she will feel able to emerge from behind her veil of authorial anonymity, and we will find out what this important author is really like.
www.geocities.com /annemichaels/OrangePrizeJudgesComments.html   (1533 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Fugitive Pieces: English Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Michaels also employs musical themes which she develops symphonically throughout the novel when Jakob thinks of his missing sister, further engaging the reader's emotions.
Anne Michael's multi-award winning first novel, "Fugitive Pieces" is a beautifully lyrical and poetic account of the memory of loss sustained during the Holocaust years.
It's easy to see Anne Michaels has a passion for poetry, and as her first novel, this is story is heartwrenchingly well done.
www.amazon.de /Fugitive-Pieces-Anne-Michaels/dp/0679776591   (2003 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Skin Divers: Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anne Michaels is best known for her blend of historical inquiry and passionate exploration of the personal, and her third collection of poetry, Skin Divers, develops those preoccupations in 13 poems about love, bereavement, and the past.
Michaels’ work is marked by intense engagement with her various subjects and a belief in the redemptive quality of language to transform – even radically alter – experience.… Skin Divers celebrates love’s myriad forms.”
“Anne Michaels’ poems are like imagined lakes on which she navigates with a fluid and moving logic.
www.amazon.ca /Skin-Divers-Anne-Michaels/dp/0771058799   (682 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reviews for Poems: Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anne Michael's poetry strikes me at the heart to be very sensuous.
It is seductive to read Anne Michaels' collected poems as a companion piece to her breath-taking debut novel 'Fugitive Pieces', a fictionialised first-hand account of a young poet who learns how to articulate the horror of his family's past and find redemption though language and the love of a woman.
The underlying theme of many of the poems, as in 'Fugitive Pieces', is the struggle to accept the absurdity of the human condition: the manner in which we are nourished by love, and crave it, yet are inevitably crippled by it when a loved one dies.
www.amazon.com /Poems-Anne-Michaels/dp/customer-reviews/0375702253   (774 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Poems: English Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Michaels, whose first novel (Fugitive Pieces, 1997) was published to considerable literary acclaim, couples profound intellect with deeply felt emotion in a volume that includes two award-winning collections of poems previously published only in Canada (The Weight of Oranges, 1986; and Miners Pond, 1991), along with new work, Skin Divers.
What distinguishes the author and raises her above many of her peers is the way her personal life informs but never overwhelms her poems, while her intellectual ardor for language and formal thought only occasionally distances her (and the reader) from feeling.
Michaels is wrestling with the way that love survives despite separation, even death.
www.amazon.de /Poems-Anne-Michaels/dp/0375401407   (529 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fugitive Pieces: A Novel: Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Michaels nevertheless infuses this novel with such lyrical, poetic allusion, such passion, and such a keen eye for spiritual anomie that the book is, in the end, well worth reading and savoring.
Anne Michaels is a poet herself, and at the beginning her style can seem overwrought for its subject.
Anne Michaels tends to use her poetic descriptions and talent to weave a story.
www.amazon.com /Fugitive-Pieces-Novel-Anne-Michaels/dp/0679776591   (2465 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about Anne Michaels in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In a wine bar tucked into a medieval Siena building, Anne Michaels was eating lunch while an employee of her Italian publisher translated the first newspaper review of In Fugo, the Italian edition of Fugitive Pieces.
Anne Michaels took part, along with four other speakers, in a celebration of her book at the Siena-Toronto Centre.
She didn't cry, but we could hear a sob buried in the second "wasted." Her audience could feel the regretful longing of the narrator, his desperate wish to be more worthy, his poignant desire to be a person who would never again commit the sin of wasting love.
www.robertfulford.com /michaels.html   (733 words)

  
 Stonehill College Press Release
Michaels provided thoughtful comments to the questions posed, giving those gathered insight into the writing process, character development and composing meaningful fiction on historical events.
In addition to Fugitive Pieces, Michaels is a critically acclaimed poet who has three volumes to her credit: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and Skin Divers.
Michaels joins the roster of the Chet Raymo Literary Series speakers, which includes Raymo himself and former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
www.stonehill.edu /media_relations/articles/110603_michaels_raymo.htm   (451 words)

  
 Anne Michaels, About Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels's characters are luminously created and alive with humanity, and we are drawn into their unforgettable lives with compassion and recognition.
Anne Michaels, previously acclaimed for two award-winning books of poetry as a writer of exceptional vision and originality, now reveals herself to be one of the most exciting fiction writers to appear in a long time.
In language electric with life, Anne Michaels constructs a delicate bridge between the present and the haunting past and leads her characters to solid ground and a permanent place in our memories.
www.library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/michaels/crit3.htm   (727 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Fugitive Pieces: Books: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
She tells the story of Jakob Beer who survived the Nazi massacre of his family in Poland when he was seven but, at the age of sixty, he is struck and killed by a car in Athens.
The book is beautifully written, Michaels the poet being everywhere evident, and it is unsettling in the best possible way-like turbulent water disturbing what lies in the depths.
Anne Michaels has composed a great piece of literature that beautifully integrates love, curiosity, danger, loss, grief and change into a very complete, entertaining, and award-winning novel.
www.amazon.ca /Fugitive-Pieces-Anne-Michaels/dp/0864922213   (1208 words)

  
 Brisbane Writers Festival - Anne Michaels
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.
Her father, born in a small village on the border of Poland and Russia, came with his family to Canada in 1931 when he was 13, settling initially in Montreal and then Toronto.
www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au /2004/content/standard_c1.asp?name=MichaelsA   (170 words)

  
 BookLoons Reviews - Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
I was not surprised to see that Michaels' other publications were works of poetry as her style is lyrical, with a vivid use of imagery...
Michaels sketches accounts of atrocities against this backdrop of time and history, creating a distance that makes it possible, though never easy, to read about them.
Michaels has given us a remarkable piece of work about survivors of a shattering horror when 'Time was cut by a knife.' Her story swells up from the pages to capture the reader like an incoming tide.
www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=124   (807 words)

  
 TomFolio.com: by Anne Michaels
Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York 1997.
Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces Publisher: Bloomsbury London 1997.
Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces Publisher: Knopf NY 1997.
www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?aut=Anne_Michaels   (519 words)

  
 Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces
So effectively does Anne Michaels assimilate wood(s) and forests to Jakob’s evolving consciousness, that after reading Fugitive Pieces it is at least temporarily difficult, if not impossible, to see or imagine a "birch forest" without thinking of the novel, the journey of its protagonist, and the historical horrors in which they have their roots.
If anything, Petra’s effect on the reader is even more complex than her effect on Ben, for central to Michaels’ sketchy depiction of her is one attribute— "her fl hair" (275)—that raises huge questions about the structure of the novel, the nature of memory, and the presence—or absence—of order in human life.
Clearly, Michaels’ depiction of Jakob’s relationship with Bella is shaped by Des Pres’s argument with Lifton, as probably are other aspects of "Cleopatra’s Art" and Fugitive Pieces by his discussion of "conscience" in relation to history: "[h]orrible events take place, that is the (objective) beginning.
www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol41/anne_michaels.htm   (3659 words)

  
 BookClubs.ca | Books | The Weight of Oranges/Miner's Pond by Anne Michaels
Prior to her stunning début novel, Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels had already won prizes and acclaim for her two poetry collections.
Miner’s Pond appeared in 1991 and received the Canadian Authors Association Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award.
Anne Michaels lives in Toronto, where she is working on her next novel.
www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771058783   (220 words)

  
 anne michaels: termpapersoutlet.com- an outlet site for term papers, research papers, essays
Michaels says that the pertinent issue here is solidity, "and the metaphysical status of hard bottoms seems a good deal less problematic" (Michaels 409).
Michaels says this puts the earlier story in a different light because the tone is different and because the theme of the two stories remains the same--"the explorer in search of the solid foundations" (Michaels 409).
Michaels asks what is at stake in the search for the bottom, and he...
www.termpapersoutlet.com /cat/paper/21/anne-michaels.html   (408 words)

  
 Poems by Anne Michaels - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
Michaels landed squarely on the literary map with her highly-acclaimed first novel Fugitive Pieces, and it is undoubtedly her success as a novelist that has afforded this troika of companion books, previously published separately by smaller Canadian presses, the unusual opportunity of appearing together in one volume their first time stateside.
When read together as the author intended, these poems reveal, much like the work of her compatriot and supporter, Michael Ondaatje, an apprenticeship in the attentions of poetry that serves to both illuminate and extend her more well-known prose.
Both furtive and essayistic, Michaels deftly re-creates the historic moment of an idea as if it were her own.
www.raintaxi.com /online/2000summer/michaels.shtml   (337 words)

  
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Anne Michaels' startlingly beautiful novel tells the interlocking stories of two men from different generations whose lives have been transformed by war.
A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during the Second World War and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and humanist Athos Roussos.
Anne Michaels' most recent book, Poems, published in 2000, includes three collections of poetry: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award; and Skin Divers.
www.allenandunwin.com /Bookseller/product.asp?ISBN=9780747534969   (323 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Fugitive Pieces: Livres en anglais: Anne Michaels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada.
These intertwined stories are related by Canadian poet Michaels in incandescent prose, dark and tender and poetically lyrical.
A bestseller in Canada, the novel will make readers yearn to share it with others, to read sentences and entire passages aloud, to debate its message, to acknowledge its wisdom.
www.amazon.fr /Fugitive-Pieces-Anne-Michaels/dp/0679776591   (895 words)

  
 Charlie's Portal: interview with Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels made a huge emotional gamble in undertaking this project: it was a matter of faith.
He says, 'Who can tell with absolute certainty the difference between the sounds of those who are in despair and those who want desperately to believe.' And he sees that precise moment of struggle as proof that there's a faith in matter, in physical matter—almost a blunt, pragmatic faith…that body itself wants to carry on.
Despite her faith in the human ability to survive, Michaels is not blind to the human ability to be cruel to each other.
www3.telus.net /ccho/michaels.html   (848 words)

  
 McClelland.com | Author Spotlight: Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner?
Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade.
As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece...
www.mcclelland.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=20512   (428 words)

  
 Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels’ Miner’s Pond.” Canadian Poetry 46 (2000): 69-85.
Michaels’ poetry has been awarded the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and the Canadian Authors Association Award.
Michaels continues to live and work in Toronto.
www.brocku.ca /canadianwomenpoets/Michaels.htm   (315 words)

  
 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels - Reader's Guide - Books - Random House
Ben's parents feel that their toehold in their new home is infinitely precarious, an emotion that communicates itself to Ben.
Anne Michaels is the author of two collections of poetry, The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and Miner's Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award.
Anne Michaels teaches Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679776598&view=rg   (1028 words)

  
 Anne Michaels Biography and Summary
The contemporary Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist Anne Michaels writes in English and is best known for her first novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996), which won national and international awards.
Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Michaels attended the University of Toronto, at which she currently teaches.
www.bookrags.com /Anne_Michaels   (128 words)

  
 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes!
I'm not sure how someone could read Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and not be completely stunned and facinated by her use of language throughout the entire book.
All this while filling me with haunting, original imagages and ideas (a boy breathing through the bog surface while in hiding, teeth and buttons landing on wood floor, fossilized emotions).
There is the sense that Michaels spent time with every paragraph in order to render it beautiful and true to her sense of self.
www.wutheringbites.com /read/bookpage.asp?BookID=19   (1522 words)

  
 RJ Michaels, Inc. | Advertising, Marketing, and Web Design Agency in Jackson, Michigan (MI)
RJ Michaels, Inc. developed an integrated marketing campaign for L J Ross Associates, a collection agency in Ann Arbor, MI.
RJ Michaels, Inc. performed competitive market research, consumer attitude research, secondary research and a communications audit on L J Ross Associates, and later used the information collected to produce final marketing pieces that truly portrayed and defined the essence of L J Ross Associates.
RJ Michaels, Inc. Launches New Website for Fleming & Fleming, P.C. RJ Michaels, Inc. announced today the launch of a new website for Fleming & Fleming, P.C. “We are finding many who are searching for a lawyer are now turning first to the Internet,” said Anne Fleming.
www.rjmichaels.com   (387 words)

  
 Career Corner Resume Display - Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels is looking for a job as:
Anne L. Michaels 325-655-7069 almichaels_2001@msn.com ________________________________________ QUALIFICATIONS More than 20 years of progressive Human Resources and management experience.
Expertise in the development and management of all HR/Benefits/Recruitment process and resources to successfully staff corporations with the best fit candidates and knowledge of all HR Policies.
careers.awn.com /resumedisp.php3?userid=digination   (1177 words)

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