Existing Music John Dufresne While Marisol hoped they would

While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands

it presents these two misunderstood icons as they've never been seen before: with all of their brilliance

tying different types of common knots and hitches

with steaming cups of tea before us and the promise of the cookies I made yesterday awaiting us in the kitchen

Existing Music John Dufresne While Marisol hoped they wouldTrillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speaker's favourite musicians from the long gaps between one artist's records, and grief over another's suicide, to the marvelling at another's ability to write beautiful songs about