Publisher Description

Common Place negotiates intimacy while navigating the complexities of memory, addressing shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes challenged by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush hour transit, Sarah Pinder explores seeing and being seen in our most private and public of moments. With considered, quiet urgency, these poems name our ambiguous, aching present and look towards what comes next.Sarah Pinder is the author of the poetry collection Cutting Room. Her writing has been included in magazines including Geist, Arc, and Poetry is Dead. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Author Biography

Sarah Pinder is the author of the poetry collection Cutting Room. Her writing has been included in Geist, Arc, and Poetry is Dead, and others. She lives in Toronto.

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Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our most private and public moments of seeing and being seen. With considered, quiet urgency, this poem witnesses our ambiguous, aching present and looks towards what comes next. 'Watch for the places where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.' - Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife ' Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tattered record keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, "home of the lesser, lowercase subject." Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.' - Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven's Thieves Sarah Pinder is the author of the poetry collection Cutting Room . Her writing has been included in magazines including Geist, Arc , and Poetry is Dead . She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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'Watch for the places where Pinder goes for the imperative: like the book as a whole, these commands are generous, beautiful, and difficult lifelines thrown from a fellow survivor of the present.'- Jennifer Nelson, author of Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife ' Common Place feels like the logbook of a survivor, one that shows how the intimate and the idiosyncratic persist within the post-capitalist technosphere. A tattered record keeping, Common Place is friend of the abject landscape, "home of the lesser, lowercase subject." Grasp its compassionate disposition, and this fragmentary poem reveals the affective centre of its ingeniously dissociative fabric.'- Sue Sinclair, author of Heaven's Thieves

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