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Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours she is a Guggenheim Fellow, has received honorary degrees, and has served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film. Her most recent books include All We Saw, Infinite Gradation and Railtracks (co-written with John Berger). In 2020, her novel Fugitive Pieces was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Novels that Shaped the World.
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Infinite Gradation - Anne Michaels
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Anne Michaels is a novelist and a poet. Her books have been translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film. She is Toronto’s Poet Laureate.
Other books by Anne Michaels
Poetry
The Weight of Oranges
Miner’s Pond
Skin Divers
Poems
Correspondences
All We Saw
Fiction
Fugitive Pieces
The Winter Vault
Theatre
Railtracks ( with John Berger)
For Children
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
ANNE MICHAELS
INFINITE GRADATION
Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Translation, Drama and Graphic Books
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Michaels, Anne, 1958-, author
Infinite gradation / Anne Michaels.
Previously published: Hackney, London, England: House Sparrow Press, 2017.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
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CONTENTS
COVER
INFINITE GRADATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A NOTE ON THE TEXT BY GARETH EVANS
for
John Berger
Mark Strand
Rosalind Michaels
and for
Gareth Evans
The stillness between silence and
muteness.
The last weeks and hours before the
imminent death of one we love – a time
of desire so