Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-997508014
$21.95 CDN / $19.95 US | Trade Paperback
September 2025
After Hurricane Katrina, the photographer Robert Polidori flew to New Orleans to document the devastation. In the wreckage he witnessed, and in her questions about what she saw in what he saw, Stephanie Bolster found the beginnings of a long poem. Those questions led to unexpected places; meanwhile, life kept pouring in. The ensuing book, Long Exposure, is Bolster’s fifth, a roaming, associative exploration of disasters and their ongoing aftermaths, sufferings large and small, and the vulnerability and value of our own lives. Incremental, unsettling, Long Exposure rushes to and through us.
Praise for Stephanie Bolster
“. . . brilliant narrative juxtapositions. She uses her lyrical powers to present Alice the creation and Alice the person in a cultural context that, on one level, re-examines cognition and dissociation and on another, liberates the poetic sequence from the monotony of story and closure.”—Governor General’s Award jury citation
“[Bolster’s] poems work with a voice so at ease and natural that their insights seem at once familiar and new, the way summer rain announces itself just before it falls”—Montreal Gazette
