Incorporating two dance projects, a radio piece and striking new poetry, You Don't Get to Be a Saint is a sharp edged collage, full of the echoes of human movement and voice. This latest volume builds on the vision of Friesen's previous work that began with The Shunning, Unearthly Horses and Flicker and Hawk.
You Don't Get to Be a Saint
- Praise:
"Witty, lucid, passionate, the long lines of Friesen's poems reach into 'human days that can't be helped' and retrieve images of intimacy and humility. This is a book of dances and converstaions: between the poet and his anima, speech and the outward silence of thought, language, and gesture. With his customary stateliness and elegance of mind, Friesen engages us to think 'somewhere between yes and no'-- a place, as it turns out, filled with the voices of friends."—Sharon Thesen
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