From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems [Paperback]

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.

From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.

This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003).

Kogawa’s poems here are evidence that our every vulnerability can open into vast channels of grace.“Through the forests of history, the fog of memory, the floating faith of a dream, Joy Kogawa’s poems seek—and achieve— deep clarity and grace. Whether recollecting wartime dispossession and displacement, travels through Japan, or the loss of loved ones, Kogawa’s lucid lines evince tender, sensuous attention to the ‘cracks in the curtains / of the universe,’ those moments when the ephemeral and the eternal converge. From the Lost and Found Department asks us to hear ‘the sound / of hands / clapping like lightning,’ to hold ‘a deep purple kimono bought / in some vaguely remembered girlhood,’ and to acknowledge that ‘it's our duty’ to ‘greet the dead who smile through trees . . .’”
—Michael Prior, author of Burning Province
 
“In From the Lost and Found Department we encounter a poet’s vast witness of and homage to the world. In the aftermatl#"