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In Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead, Erina Harris works with fairy tales, children’s literature, mythology and feminist literary history to ask important questions of gender, of queerness, of misogyny and of the role of art in social change. These are brilliant, innovative poems, where Harris displays an exceptional mastery of both traditional and experimental forms to examine versions of our endangered future. Vibrant, disruptive and always questioning, Harris invites us all to upend tradition and engage deeply with the modern world.

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""A strange and powerful debut, a cryptic and mythic suite of poems resembling surreal theatre. . . . Eclectic and ambitious, The Stag Head Spoke announces the arrival of an impressive talent."" -- ""Winnipeg Free Press"" ""Every poet controls language, but few poets can create Harris' energy level, and if they do, few are able to contain it with such deftness. This is world-class poetry of the highest order. Harris has upturned the tables of poetry, and reset them exquisitely, all while digging deep into the reader's heart. Buy this book, but be ready for it."" -- ""Lemon Hound on The Stag Head Spoke""

"""Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead is a book of gorgeous music that reinvents the architecture of our formation - rhyme, nonsense, myths and nursery rhymes. Harris brilliantly reimagines the stories that accompany us as we grow into language, and, further, her new work reimagines the possibilities of our growing. In poems and notes exploring new forms of flourishing, Harris articulates an ethics of profound collaboration, of an intertextual, subversive relationality. Articulating this necessary interconnection, Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead invites us to attend to and sing what is 'incantatory from within.'"" - Julie Joosten, author of Nought ""A strange and powerful debut, a cryptic and mythic suite of poems resembling surreal theatre. . . . Eclectic and ambitious, The Stag Head Spoke announces the arrival of an impressive talent."" - Winnipeg Free Press ""Every poet controls language, but few poets can create Harris' energy level, and if they do, few are able to contain it with such deftness. This is world-class poetry of the highest order. Harris has upturned the tables of poetry, and reset them exquisitely, all while digging deep into the reader's heart. Buy this book, but be ready for it."" - Lemon Hound on The Stag Head Spoke ""Read these ear-spun and ribald reports from the rustling femme multiverse (otherwise known as one's many-named ancestress) with sweetest pleasure inversions as wet maps to raucous underworlds. Her rippling song sluice's Dolly's formally abundant play's shatterment, like, better, eruditer, hilarious: For those who prefer Rime Shapely."" - Lisa Robertson, author of The Baudelaire Fractal and Nilling"

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Erina Harris is a Canadian writer, educator and mentor. Her first book, The Stag Head Spoke (Buckrider Books, 2014), was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. A graduate and Fellow of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her work has been published widely, translated and awarded multiple prizes including international residencies. She lives and teaches in Edmonton, Alberta.

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