Hallelujah Time
Virginia Konchan
Hallelujah Time, Virgina Konchan's third full-length poetry collection — and the first to appear in Canada — delivers up poetry that is unlike anything being written today. Specializing in fast-moving monologues that track the vagaries and divagations of a mind in action, Konchan cuts our most hallowed cultural institutions and constructions down to size. She bracingly confronts the contemporary need to constantly adjust our masks to appease impossible standards, and our desperate fear of having our true selves be seen and understood. Hallelujah Time embraces a dazzling mix of idioms, registers, and tones in poems that compress everything they know into aphoristic, hard-boiled insights as arresting as they are witty, theatrical as they are sincere. "My human desire," Konchan writes, "is simple: / to live on the perpetual cusp / of extremity." (From Vehicule Press)
Hallelujah Time is available in September 2021.
Virginia Konchan is the author of two previous poetry collections and a collection of short stories. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Believer and Boston Review. She lives in Halifax.
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