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From the Lost and Found Department by Joy Kogawa

An essential volume of poetry from a trailblazing Canadian writer

An essential volume of poetry from a trailblazing Canadian writer

From the Lost and Found Department by Joy Kogawa. Book cover of a black and white image of Joy Kogawa.
(McClelland & Stewart)

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.

From the Lost and Found Department,by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.

This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems fromThe Splintered Moon(1967),A Choice of Dreams(1974),Jericho Road(1977),Woman In the Woods(1985), andA Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems(2003).

Kogawa's poems here are evidence that our every vulnerability can open into vast channels of grace. (From McClelland & Stewart)

Jo Kogawa is a celebrated Japanese Canadian writer currently based in Toronto. She is best known for her novel Obasan which is based on her family's experiences during the Second World War. Obasan won the Books in Canada First Novel Award (now known as the Amazon First Novel Award) in 1982. Her poetry collections include The Splintered Moon, A Choice of Dreams and Woman in the Woods. She is also the author of the memoir Gently to Nagasaki.