Hesitating Once to Feel Glory

Name: Hesitating Once to Feel Glory
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780889714144
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By Maleea Acker

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Hesitating Once to Feel Glory is Maleea Acker's audacious new poetry collection, weaving emotion with bold stylistic grace. The poems traverse a landscape marked by longing and hope, with vivid imagery that leaps from sorrow to splendour. With deft metaphors and an erotic charge, these verses explore the interplay between the world and inner life, set against evocative, surreal backdrops.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Hesitating Once to Feel Glory

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Ideal for readers of contemporary poetry who appreciate emotionally charged, imaginative verse with cultural richness and inventive language. Suitable for those interested in arts and culture and who enjoy reflective, innovative poetry collections.

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Maleea Acker's dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style.

Any day now I shall be released to the Bangladesh runway,
its burnt-out plane a little hulk from a different dimension,

a researcher of longing, no one selling Heineken
from a cooler in its unlit aisles, no one with a line to God.

Acker's poems hang on precipices of emotion. They cartwheel from sadness to glory, then break into blossoms in a drought-struck landscape of longing. These are poems filled with daring leaps and precise, deft metaphors. There is machinery, there are imaginaries; a dictator selects the musical soundtrack. The poems cajole and praise both the world and interior life with an erotic charge and enduring hope.

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Critics praise Acker's work for its precise and surreal lamentations, creating a mysterious inner dialogue as if post-apocalyptic. The poetry vividly portrays everyday life, especially in Mexico, capturing the deep ethical and communal significance of familiar places and characters. Both Jan Zwicky and Argel Corpus highlight the collection’s mesmerizing emotional depth and cultural resonance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780889714144

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: Canada

Imprint: Nightwood Editions

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Maleea Acker Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Maleea Acker lives in unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territories on Vancouver Island. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, The Reflecting Pool (Pedlar Press, 2009) and Air-Proof Green (Pedlar Press, 2012), as well as a non-fiction book, Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC’s South Coast (New Star Books, 2012). She has lived, worked and been an arts fellow in Canada, the US, Spain and Mexico. Acker teaches geography, Canadian studies and literature at the University of Victoria and Camosun College.